Simon Clark wrote:

I have looked around the web for ideas and amongst the sites I have
found which offer to transfer old music onto CD, the service offered
by www.indicativeit.co.uk/yourmusiconcd looks quite simple and
professional.

However I am a little concerned about:
1) is it legal? Either for me to possess CD copies and for the web
site company to copy them?, and
2) I'm a little worried about posting my precious old music via the
UK's postal system. Has anyone done this to Your Music On CD or a
similar postal service and did they get their original music back ok?

It seems amazingly cheap for the amount of work involved but surely it
would be better to buy a CD copy of the albums you want transferred.
There are very few vinyl albums that have not been transferred to CD and
a CD recorded direct from the master tape is going to sound better than
a quick transfer from vinyl. There are plenty of online places selling
CD's for under a tenner.

Legally you aren't allowed to copy records at all in the UK (the concept
of fair use is American) but no-one is likely to worry about a single
backup copy. However, if you were to buy the CD, you could possibly also
sell the vinyl version on to a collector quite legally.

I do this kind of transfer work for people and, so far, I've found the
postal service reliable. However, even though things have been OK so
far, I don't like sending the only copy of anything through the post.

Cheers.

James.