i have a great vinyl collection, and want to put the songs on my records on my ipod--is there a way to do it?

Question

Is there an engineer out there who can invent a device to make a high quality recording of the records as they play, digitize that music, and then download it onto a portable MP3 player?

Answer 1

Yes. I have a friend whose mother does it for a living. if this (http://www.digitalaudioworld.com/vinyl-to-MP3.html) site dose'nt work for you, google "vinyl to mp3" and you should get at least one method that will work you.

Answer 2

You can do this, but unless you got kickin turntables, pre-amps, etc, when you convert it, it will never sound as good as CD.

Now, if you have rare stuff that will never be produced on CD, then there are a couple of solutions - depending on your technical skills.

- Get decent computer with good quality sound card (with "line/aux in" jack). Connect turntable to this INPUT.
- To save wear and tear on the record, record the sound as few times as possible into a WAVE file (cd quality) on the computer. Don't worry about breaking the files into individual songs just yet. Just make sure to get as CLEAN and BALANCED recording as you can.
- Try to record as many albums as your computer and your time can handle AT ONE TIME. This will speed up the conversions - get the manual stuff out the way.
- Use any number of WAVE editors to NOW slice the wave files into properly start/stop songs. As long as you stay in digital wave format, you will not lose any quality. You'll have to listen to each LARGE wave file and determine the beginning and end of each song. Write down the marker of time, ie. song #1 starts at 5 secs and ends at 4min 10secs., and then save JUST THAT part out to another wave NEW file.
- Once you have all your songs split into separate wave files, NOW you can convert them all as once to MP3. This is where the computer does all the work and you wait.

Once you got the mp3, you can now rename them accordingly, and upload them to your ipod.

Answer 3

Best website I found!! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/howto/FromVinyltoComputer_StepByStep.aspx

You can get a connector where you can hook your turntable to the back of your computer. I've never done this, but I've heard you can get the connector at Radio Shack. Also, they make a turntable with a CD recorder made into it, that I would personally love to have, but it is a little expensive (maybe soon). Anyway, that's the choices I know of. I hope this helps! :)

Answer 4

Here ya go: http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/8be8/