jackpod Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Well after almost 10 years, I started unboxing my vinyl today and my TT. (I have 17 - 13"x13"x13" boxes). I hooked up the TT and dropped a vinyl on the platter, lowered the tonearm and was totally amazed at how good it sounded thru my Project w/Sumiko Oyster ->Mac C39 -> Mac 240 and Khorns. I have my cd collection ripped in wav format on my music server and was thinking, geez it would be nice to get a lot of the vinyl stuff into wav format on the server. The server has 1.5 terrabytes of storage and my 1250 some odd cds only take 640Gigs, so i have lots of space. Anyone have any software recommendations that would let me "rip" the vinyl into wav files?. I would need to be able to edit track info (song title, artist, album etc). Once on the hard drive I could import it into J River which is what I use to manage the current 15,329 wavs I have on there now Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsp1068 Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 http://www.cfbsoftware.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpod Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 Mark Thanks! I will go search. Since I am going wav file, there shouldn't be much if any difference in sound. Everything on the server is wav, I won't even go with what they call lossless (altho some listening tests I did with ape format sounded great) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpod Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 rsp, that software looks pretty good. Do you use it? Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0527 Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 I downloaded Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition for about $15.00 It has an analog recorder that has got to be the easiest vinyl to hard drive set up I've tried. People love to rip all things Microsoft and it certainly isn't free, but for a $15 spot, it was worth it for the quality and ease of operation compared to some of the other analog to digital software get ups I've tried. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Plus/dme/dmehome.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwh Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 The other thread is here: http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/thread/804053.aspx Iwasn't aware of the ART USB phono device that DrWho suggested in thisthread, but I have added it to my Christmas wish list. I plan todigitize several of my rare LPs since I use a server full of FLAC filesas my only source, but any transfers like this will degrade thequality. Your best option (for quality, if not convenience) may be justto use the LPs directly as you are currently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsp1068 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Jack, I do not as of YET have a TT. (new shop opening in Stillwater MN this weekend, the owner dropped a line to say he has many for me to choose from...........) I Know of a couple other peeps from another forum who do, and swear by it. I downloaded the trial version just to check it out, so....... If you need a link to check out some thoughts on it, just hollar. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 My records are 12" and that little slot is only 4"! How do you get them to fit? I tried, but they don't fold up so well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smuttynose Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 My records are 12" and that little slot is only 4"! How do you get them to fit? I tried, but they don't fold up so well? shrinkwrap might work, or try investing them, all my investments grow smaller over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I use Sony Sound Forge to: 1......Eliminate the crackle and pops 2......Normalize each track to the same level 3......Noise reduction if needed 4......Remove beginning and end groove noise 5......Real time graphic equalizer to sometimes pump up the low or high end 6......Repair defective track sections using the other track 7......Clipped peak restoration if needed 8......Pitch change if needed JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpod Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 Michael, Now that is funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpod Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 JJ, I will check it out. I originally wasn't going to try to go that far, but it may be worth looking into. My music server not only feeds my main and secondary audio systems but I have an 8 zone whole house audio system so I can have background music throughout the house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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