Vinyl to CD Service (1 Viewer)

[Quintron]

Anyone know of anyone that provides a vinyl digitizing service, vinyl to CD etc?
A friend of minehas about 80 records that they want to digitize for someone for their birthday and don't know how to do it themselves..
Cheers.

 

[theoootini]

doubt there is a service for this... you'll have to do it yourself or find a friend with a sound card...

 

[therealjohnny]

doubt there is a service for this... you'll have to do it yourself or find a friend with a sound card...

There might be.. I saw a few places in Prague that did this so I'd say someone here might have had the same idea

But yeah , a friend with a PC should be able to do it for nothing

 

[Quintron]

Cheers, I'd do it myself but don't have the time (nor the inclination tbh..)
I thought there may have been some company that did something like this as an additional service.
Oh well...

 

[therealjohnny]

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[GARYXKNIFEDX]

I've seen places advertise this and it would be cheaper to buy cd reissues. Or,you could try downloading them?

 

[Quintron]

Cheers again all. It would probably be cheaper to get CD re-issues but we're dealing with v. old, rare vinyl. Most of it classical. Scanned torrents this morning. No joy.

Its for a birthday present for an elderly person so I can't see them downloading them..
They asked me as a favour.. I've found a bunch in the UK but they are expensive. I've passed the links on to them and they can do what they want with the info. Thanks again.

K

 

[Anthony]

Plus it's a pain in the hole to do.

 

[Raar - Maximum]

What you need!

1. Turntable
2. Amp / Mixer with record out
3. PC/Mac with decent sound card and line input
4. Audacity software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
5. Lame Codec http://www.free-codecs.com/Lame_Encoder_download.htm
6. 2 into 1 cable to connect between mixer / amp and PC / Mac

Open Audacity program press record and play your record. If you see soundwaves being created then your in like flynn. Play around with the software and you will get the hang of how to use it. Its reasonably intuitive.

 

[das funkinstein]

80 records is going to take a long time to rip / encode.
even if you could get someone to do it for you it would cost loads.

let just assume there lps and 30 mins a side that works out at 80 hours of just recording. then you have to edit each track down and burn it to cd.

it can be done but i think your looking down the barrel of 90 hours work.

why not get a nice turntable instead ?

 

[Quintron]

I suggested a turntable.. even those god awful looking usb ones they have now.. but these people are hardcore luddites taking the plunge into the digital domain out of necessity and ultimately doin it their way (ie getting someone else "professional" to do it).

Get the impression money is not too much of a problem. I did send them the link johnnystress posted above so thats kept them happy for now (cheers!!!).
My work here is done.

@ Raar cheers for the tips. I'm au fait with vinyl to cd via computer but not a hope n hell of me doin it, with that number especially, in a relatively short space of time and they wouldn't know one end of an audio editing suite from the other.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I burn vinyl to CDR using a standalone CD recorder [that has nothing to do with a PC].

If burning full LPs I have to manually increment the track numbers. Nuisance x 10.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Ouch!!!! Way more pricey than I thought.
Anyone want to start a business?
http://sonicartrecording.com//content/view/30/1/

This add was on the google adds on the left hand side of the page.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

your problem here isn't the process, it's the quantity
try soulseek etc and whittle down the figure
you'll save yourself a load of heartache / time / money