I'm certainly not going to propose that you infringe on any copyrighted material. But to archive albums (I have done a few old jazz albums that are not available on CD that I wanted to listen to in the car) there is a fairly easy way. With the HP burner, you should have gotten sonic foundry's ACID program. It will allow you to record from the analog inputs of your computer. In this case you do need a good (or at least decent) soundcard. Use the line level in on your computer and be sure to turn off all other inputs (they create noise). Unless you really have a state of the art soundcard--this will not be audiophile quality, but it will be good. I found mine for the car were more than acceptable, but I don't think they'd measure up to the source material on the home system.
Methods for transfer of albums to CD
A friend of mine has a very large collection of mint albums, including a beatles import box set, and a franklin mint jazz anthology which includes some fantastic music. I own a computer with a HP cd burner, Roxio Easy CD creator 5 software, but no decent sound card. I was wondering if any of you have had any success at creating good sounding CD's from vinyl, and what equipment I might need. I am sure I need a sound card for the computer with an analog and/or digital input, and one of the add on phono pre-amps, which I would likely use later to add analog to my system. Any suggestions and or experiences, both good and bad, will be appreciated. My current system:
Cary 808 amp, SLP 2002 pre-amp, Theta pro gen and Data, B&W 802 Matrix II, and a Windows 95 based PC with CD burner.
Mike
Cary 808 amp, SLP 2002 pre-amp, Theta pro gen and Data, B&W 802 Matrix II, and a Windows 95 based PC with CD burner.
Mike