convert all my vinyl records to mp3

I moved my digital turntable from the living room (where it was used with my laptop) to my home office (where it is now plugged into my desktop, which has a better soundcard), and I converted a few more LPs. I have worked out a somewhat better workflow for the conversion but want to try a different software to see if that helps.

An article about converting LPs to digital, including a quote from me.

The USB turntable I bought came with Audacity (freeware), which isn’t very easy to use. Manually splitting an album into individual tracks is by far the toughest part of this project. I will take a look at some recommendations others have made here, the ads on this page, and some other sources for possibly easier-to-use software.

I bought an ION USB turntable earlier this month. The process is much more complicated than ripping CDs, but I have a very large vinyl collection, so in the long run, this is far cheaper than buying the same albums on CD (if they are even available).

This project will take a long time to finish, but I think it will be worth it.

Oh, and when I am finished, there is a set of cables so I can attempt converting my cassette tapes, too.

I bought a converter kit that plugs into the back of a receiver/amplifier and connects to your computer via the USB connection. Alas, my “main” stereo does not have RCA outputs, and my while my home theater’s receiver does, none of them worked with the kit. I don’t know if my converter was bad or I was doing something wrong, but I give up.

Maybe one day I’ll find an easier way to do this, but for now, I give up.

It’s still sitting in the shipping carton in my living room. My next three weekends are booked solid, so I don’t know when I’ll make the time to open it up, read the directions, hook it up and start using it (hopefully in that order), but I hope that I can do so one evening, maybe after work.

Can’t even start on this one yet, and converting my vinyl LPs will take some time.