[OT] Vinyl records

I applaud you, Beverly; DS & I really need to get something like that for the same reason. We've bought a few CDs when some of the old ones have been re-released, but there aren't that many. Just imagine how faster your sewing will go when you're listening to all the "oldies but goodies." Emily

Not pushing this product, and NAYY, but the turntable I bought comes with really easy-to-learn software:

is a little time-consuming, because it takes as long to transfer the music to the computer as the record is long, but once you start the recording you can turn your attention to other tasks for about 15 minutes. Then you flip the disk and record the other side. It's easy to insert marks for each track, and also to omit certain pieces if you don't like them. I combined the front and back from two LPs of Herb Alpert onto one CD, which created 60 minutes of music on one piece of media. I'm intending to make a large mixed CD of several of my favorite holiday albums later, too.

Beverly (off to buy more CDs)

Hi Beverly, Maybe you are already aware of this but you can purchase MP3 capable car and home CD players and then you can get 100s-1000s of songs in MP3 format onto one CD.

Of course the number of songs is a factor of the quality of the MP3 recording **you choose** but i found it very convenient to have 100s of songs on one CD at radio quality recording.

Then there is always the MP3/iPod music player route where you just plug it into your car or home capable player.

etc bla bla bla ... :) robb

Thanks for the info! I forwarded it to DS, and my sister. She can probably get one of our nieces who lives in her area to help her get started, or maybe do it for her, if she has Windows XP. My laptop is an XP, but my desktop is an Apple. Thanks again. Emily

I use my laptop with XP Pro, and it works perfectly. I can set up both the laptop and the turntable in near proximity and use the large harddrive on my laptop to store the initial recording. My laptop has a CD/DVD +-R+-RW recorder.

By the way, if you are going to try this turntable, be aware you will need a way to monitor the recording to the harddrive, there is no amplifier or external speaker. I use some low-end headphones which plug into the turntable.

Beverly

What a wonderful project - the memories that you must be enjoying as you play your old favourites! That gives me an idea of what to buy my husband for his birthday. He has a stack of vinyl records doing nothing other than sitting in a box. That would give him something to keep him occupied!

Alan had found a considerable number of our old vinyl records (now otherwise unavailable) online as MP3's. Worth looking into as well, as it's a lot less time consuming to do. You can often find the record sleeves online too. You can also fit a HUGE amount (5-6 hours or more) of music all on one disk!

Music from the 40s on vinyl?

The vinylk in my collection dates from the sixties,before then it wa something else, forget now.

Wish i could get a means of transferring the music though.

But, you do realise that CDs will be superseded?

:-(

Occasionally I get out the wind-up gramophone and listen to my old jazz records. They're so worn now that no recovery system would be able to transcribe the sounds successfully.

Ah well, they'll be dumped when we go!

Mary

I have software for converting .wav files to .mp3, so I could probably make .mp3 CDs, but I really don't need 100s of songs on one CD, and the entire mixing/converting/burning process would not be worth the effort IMHO.

I have had a 40Gb MP3 player for a couple of years. I mostly use it to download information from a financial guru so I can listen to his advice while I'm driving, sewing and gardening, but I certainly could use it for additional music.

Thanks,

Beverly

Expect him to disappear for extended periods of time, it's a timesink. ;-)

Beverly

I don't doubt I could find many of my oldies available online, but this is a fun project. And I can omit pieces I don't want, and combine several artists on one disk. Not for everyone, but I am enjoying the process. ;-)

Beverly

Ummm, yes... We have a couple dozen Benny Goodman-Artie Shaw-Glenn Miller-etc. artists on vinyl. They are probably remastered copies of the original sessions.

Edison cylinders?:

;->

Sure, but so what? I'm 69 years-old now, and I reckon the CD/MP3 players I own will last at least another 20 years. By the time CD technology completely ends I'll be deaf...

or dead. :-|

Beverly

In my youth (the forties) 78rpm records were the only ones available and they were made from shellac.

Vinyl wasn't used until 45rpm and 33 1/3 rpm discs went into production.

Not quite as old as that!

I'm a bit deaf already but far from dead, I expect to see my century. Another thirty years :-)

Mary

"78 rpm materials Early disc records were made of various materials including hard rubber. From 1897 onwards, earlier materials were largely replaced by a rather brittle formula of 25% shellac, a filler of a cotton compound similar to manila paper, powdered slate, and a small amount of a wax lubricant. The mass production of shellac records began in 1898 in Hanover, Germany, and continued until the end of the 78-rpm format in the late 1950s. "Unbreakable" records, usually of celluloid on a pasteboard base, were made from 1904 onwards, but they suffered from an exceptionally high level of surface noise. "Unbreakable" records could be bent, broken, or otherwise damaged; but not nearly as easily as shellac records. Decca introduced vinyl "Deccalite" 78s after the Second World War, but other labels would restrict vinyl production to the newer 33 and 45 formats."

I never would have known all that. Gotta love Google. ;-) My family had as its main home entertainment a phonograph player-radio combination in a large wood case, and had dozens of 78RPM records. My folks didn't have TV until after I left home in '58.

LOL! ;->

I'm not getting deaf, everyone else has started mumbling! :-(

Beverly

No, that was Wiki. You can't ely 100% on Wiki.

Nor did mine. We still don't have one.

And I bet your arms have grown shorter, right?

Mary

I am aware of that, but I Googled first:

was just one of the sites I visited.

I probably watch fewer than 10 hours a week and that number includes news. I love a few of the shows on PBS, Discovery, The History Channel, etc. I could live without it, but why would I? It'd be like tossing all my sewing machines. ;-)

MUCH! :-}

Beverly

Oh very cool!!! My DMIL just got one of those recently too. She loves it. And has been working (in her spare time....which means it will take years lol) on converting her collection too.

One thing to think about. If your CD players will support MP3 format, you can put a lot more MP3s on one disk than you can wave files. The CD player in my car will play MP3s. So I made some travel music disks. I could put about 10 albums on each one. I did one of blues, I did one of rock, I did one of this and another of that. ;) Our music collection is eclectic to say the least. I keep those kind of CDs in the car. That way I don't have originals in there...y'know in case the car comes up missing. I suppose that says a lot about me, I know I could replace the car (full coverage) but it would really chap my buns to have to replace 10 or 12 of my favorite CDs that were in it. lol

Have fun with your project!!!

Sharon

I'm figuring I'll have master copies of all my records by, oh, say, 2015 or so...

My collection starts with lots of classical, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Vivaldi, etc., continues to the Big Band era (both instrumental and vocal), includes several Broadway Musical sound tracks, wanders through 40s-50s jazz, on to Elvis, Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, Baja Marimba Band, .....

I pretty much stopped listening to contemporary music about

1966

I never take original CDs in the car, I make copies for just that purpose, like you I would be REALLY upset if someone stole the car (or broke into it) and made off with my treasured CD collection.

Thanks!

Beverly

Well, shoot! There goes my cunning plan to have Beverly copy my old LPs.......