Vinyl to CD or MP3 or .wav?

Desmo

I have a stack of ole LPs (Long Playing Records for the youngsters).
Anyone know of anyone in Dublin who will copy these to digital (.wav or anything that I can play in a CD drive or MP player)?

I know how to do it (roughly) except my turntable is possibly dead and I aint buying a new one.

As a side issue these include "Louis the First" (Louis Stewart trio album that I cannot find ANYWHERE on CD and I now want to hear again); a related question would be: does anyone know where to find that?

Des

echomadman

There are people that offer to do it, but it's expensive, as they have to be recorded in realtime, post processed a bit then encoded.
It'd be cheaper to buy a budget standalone turntable and do it yourself tbh.

Desmo

echomadman wrote:

There are people that offer to do it, but it's expensive, as they have to be recorded in realtime, post processed a bit then encoded.
It'd be cheaper to buy a budget standalone turntable and do it yourself tbh.

Ok thanks for the info echo!!!!

Have you any idea how much would it cost to do an album??

If I did get a turntable (it occurs to me I can probably borrow one),
do I connect the output to a line-in socket on a PC? Do you know what software to then use???

Sorry for asking all this on a jazz newsgroup; by an amazing co-incidence, these are all jazz records.

Des

Buddhapadge

I saw this on the net. I don't know if it's any good, but it might be some use...

http://www.polderbits.com/lp-to-cd.html?ref=adword1

Otherwise try Googling "LP to MP3" and see what you find.

Zaph

If you decide to do it yourself, Audiograbber or LP Ripper might help you. Both are free and it should be easy enough to find them on the net.

Alternatively, Tower Records (in Easons in O'Connell Street anyway) offer a service to convert LPs. They had a sign up and I think it was €75, but no idea for how many.

Desmo

zaph wrote:

If you decide to do it yourself, Audiograbber or LP Ripper might help you. Both are free and it should be easy enough to find them on the net.

Alternatively, Tower Records (in Easons in O'Connell Street anyway) offer a service to convert LPs. They had a sign up and I think it was €75, but no idea for how many.

KEWL!!!!

Thanks for that. I tried to google up such a service and drew a blank.
If that is the cost for one LP, it is clearly not worth it; if it is for multiple albums, It is worth it to me. Some of these are gems.

Des

Desmo

Buddhapadge wrote:

I saw this on the net. I don't know if it's any good, but it might be some use...

http://www.polderbits.com/lp-to-cd.html?ref=adword1

Otherwise try Googling "LP to MP3" and see what you find.

That is a good place to start!
Thanks!

Des