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Best Way To Archive Vinyl On My PC

I have a metric $#%&load of vinyl that I'd like to archive on my PC. The native sound card has to go. I already have the PC-to-stereo big rig connection in place, and it functions. Now, I'd like to stereo-to-PC, so I can play all the vinyl using my good TT, into my PC. It looks like there's a movement afoot to go to PCI E sound cards. My current PC has only PCI sockets, so maybe USB is the way to go. I'm not sure. I'll probably go FLAC, WAV, etc. if I can find the space. Right now, all my tunes are high-bitrate MP3s, or M4As.

Any advice on this?
licoricepizza

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dhl93449
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You need an Analog/Digital converter (the opposite of the Digital to Analog converter you have now).

I have seen one product from Benchmark that does this

http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=BEADC1USB

but cannot vouch for the sonic quality. It has a USB output that allows connection to the PC and a number of other digital outputs. Apparently this unit can produce digital at 24/192.

I'm not sure what software you might need in the PC, or how you delinate one song from the next.
dhl93449
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Ghasley

That Korg looks like a pretty neat product. A digital recorder with 120 hrs of storage that can also play back analog! So it has an A/D and D/A in the same package. Cool.
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