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Converting Vinyl to Digital

I want to convert my many vinyl records to digital - preferably stored on a server. I am looking for the very best sound quality and a relatively simple process. Best equipment and/or methods??

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herman
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The process needn't be too tedious.  I had c. 4,000 CDs. I took my laptop with a CD drive and ripped every single one to FLAC and copied them from my hard drive to a stand alone network hard drive 

converting vinyl to digital is a completely different process.

  1. Ripping a CD is just hit RIP and wait for it to get done.

Digitizing vinyl is .

  1. setting levels
  2. dropping the needle
  3. starting the recording
  4. waiting 15 minutes or so for the side to end
  5. stopping it
  6. turning the record over
  7. dropping the needle
  8. starting the recording
  9. waiting 15 minutes or so for the side to end
  10. stopping it
  11. cleaning up the file
    1. inserting song breaks if you wish
    2. labeling the segments with file names

for a 4 sided 45 rpm record add 2 more iterations.

 You are talking 40 minutes at least per record. For an occasional archive copy of a favorite record not available digitally it is worth it. Otherwise, pure hell for a big collection

Pure Vinyl software simplifies a lot of this but is WAAAY behind with updates, you need a very old Apple computer running an old OS to get it to run.

https://www.channld.com/purevinyl/

 

 

 

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