how do I convert my vinyl records to cd via my pc?

Answer 1

Usb connection from record player to pc is required, you can get the kits in electrical shops pc world and even argos, that give u all the stuff u need. good luck.

Answer 2

If you've got a good turn table, it should have some jacks to output sound to a master device (such as a tuner or soundboard), you can use this to hook the tuner up to a soundcard in the PC (if you've got a soundcard; many have "built in" sound, and that's fine for most ppl). If you have a lot of vinyl, that you really care about, go for the extra expense of buying a decent soundblaster card, with the input jacks, then simply copy the music to the Hdd, and then burn to CD, or burn directly to CD.

In standard CDI format, a CD will hold about 18-20 songs (depending upon lenght) while in MP3 format, the standard CD will hold about 250 songs (again, this will depend upon the length of the song, as well as the quality of the sound you select; I'd not go with anything less than 196bit rate... and I'd also recommend that you record all the music at the same bit rate, so that the sound quality (and volume) is the same).

My wife and I also did this, but we made certain to back up all that music to an external hard drive, just in case something happened to our CDs... we currently have a 200Gb hard drive that has 118Gb of music on it, and the nice thing is, sound quality is not comprimised!

I hope this helps!
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Answer 3

If there is a headphone socket on your record player then it's easy. You will need a cable with a stereo jack plug (3.5mm) at each end. You will also need a recording programme, I use audiograbber which is a free download. Then plug the cable into the headphone socket on the record player, and the line in socket behind your computer. Start Audograbber and under file select line in sampling. Start off with the tape volume fairly low and adjust till the recording levels are OK just to test. Then simply record to your computer. If you wish to convert to MP3 you will need an encoder, the instructions for downloading this are in Audiograbber. You can then convert them to CD using Nero or Windows Media player.Hope this helps

Answer 4

You need a cable to run from your record player to your soundcard in your pc. You also need the relevant software. I've had the cable lying in front of me for weeks but I've not got round to it yet because my record player belt has gone so when I transfer it it'll be slow.

You can get the newer usb vinyl players but it's cheaper to transfer straight to your pc. I don't know what the cable's called, sorry, but I'll describe it. There's like a standard jack end that plugs into the sound card and then the red and white jacks on the other end which plug into your record player. When you play from the record it sends it to your soundcard. The software you need came with my PC but I think you can download it, it captures the audio from the record and stores it at a place of your choice ready for burning to cd.

Sorry I've been really vague with answers, hopefully some further research should aid you, but you can get great quality because my uncle has converted his entire collection in this way, and it was him who gave me the cable.

Answer 5

You need to connect the headphone output from your player to the line input on your sound device. Then you play the vinyl and run a recording program. I use Audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net Save the file as a .wav file and burn to CD with windows media player, nero, or whatever. You can also save as mp3 for a portable, and correct the pitch in Audacity if the turntable is a bit off speed.
Note. you are illegally breaking copyright restrictions by doing this!

Answer 6

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Dr. Drum is a program with a well designed and intuitive layout. This means you won?t get bogged down with all the technical jargon and confusing buttons and tools. While some believe that when you sacrifice technical difficulty you sacrifice quality, but with Dr. Drum you get the best of both worlds. Almost immediately from the time you download Dr. Drum you can get right down to business letting your musical genius shine. The wealth of tones you have to work with at the beginning is almost mind boggling. You could sit and play for hours and still not even come close to exhausting the possibilities. Add to that the capability to upload your own sounds and you have unlimited creative potential at your fingertips.

Answer 7

If you have an amplifier then plug a head phone extension cable into the amplifier and then get a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter and plug that into the microphone input socket on the back of your PC. If you have loud speakers on your PC then it is the socket next to that on your sound card input/output sockets.

You then need to download a decent sound recorder as the Windows one is not really designed for long sound bites. You can get some fairly good time-limited demo versions.

Answer 8

A simple way would be to connect the headphone socket / output socket of your record player or hifi system to the Microphone socket on your PC.

There used to be a sound recorder program with Windows but I gues it isnt there now, but you can download free ones.

Start the sound recorder and play the record and record it - its that simple. Obviously this way you have to play each track individually and save it as a different track to record to CD so it could be time consuming if you have a large record collection

Answer 9

There are now vinyl players with a USB connector

See these>>>

http://www.guardianoffers.co.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/Guardian/TRUTURNTABLE?gclid=CPLA9JuIhowCFT4GQgodRU1yzg

http://www.decks.co.uk/articles/usb_turntable_homepage/

This site gives tutorials on how to do it>>> http://www.wavecor.co.uk/tutorial.html

I'm looking for a combined vinyl AND tape player that will convert to CD if anyone knows one I'd appreciate it

Answer 10

In my adventure, ive converted some vinyl to computing device earlier, i did it the easy way you defined. I used my stereo headphones output on my turntable, to my stereo line-in in computing device (to do this, use an uncomplicated jack-to-jack cable. then google "sound recording" or something. and you will play the song on the turntable on an identical time as pressing the record button at this technique.. wish this permits