digitize my vinyl

Still a long way to go! It seems as if there must be an easier way to do this, rather than splitting up one long track into their respective tracks.

Ended up with aproximately 100 GB mp3 song at variable bit rate ( avg 192). The CD’s was and is so much easier! The most time consuming task was eliminating scratches! But while I recorded a track I could on another PC edit the sound recorded.

It’s done and the vinyls are sold makeing 3 sq-meter space available includeing ugly shelves no longer needed!

At first I tought to start selling on EBAY but then again I thought let’s sell them locally and in one transaction. After announcing 900+ LPR’s on a lokal website for a fixed price the buyer came half an hour later placed the money. He made a bargin and I saved time.

I think it would have been cheaper to just buy new CDs of all the old Bill Cosby albums than digitize and edit them into individual sound bytes. Between this project and digitizing/ editing photos, I’ve given myself a great case of tendonitis in my elbow … so I’ll be delayed somewhat in finishing the project.

To be honest, much of what I want to digitize is not available anywhere on CD, or at least not that I’ve seen. I think I will give Amazon.com a quick check before I decide to do anymore!

I’m not sure what a “complete” set of Bill Cosby records would look like, but my husband has a LOT of them. As I digitized and played them back (for personal use only!), I realized just HOW MUCH of my husband’s sense of humor has been shaped by this funny, honest, amazing artist. Bill Cosby has unwittingly had a profound influence on our daily family life for decades, and we thank him.

I have digitized almost all of my records.

I used a fairly cheap turntable, but I am happy with the results. I recored each entire side of each record as one file and then later edited these files into individual tracks and encoded them as MP3s. This saved some time on the front end, not having to repeatedly queue up the record, and probably ended up being the same amount of time on the backend (editing the tail and end of each track). I still have 250 files that I need to edit, it’s been an ongoing project for a couple of years now!

It is totally worth it though. Much easier to just play the songs from iTunes/WinAmp/Whatever than to have to getup and switch records in the middle of whatever else I am doing.

-Sam

Any recommendations for the ideal turntable for digitizing vinyl?