"Andy Jacob" wrote in message
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I saw the posts recently about copying LPs to CD and figured that
would be a good christmas present for someone I know so thought I'd
have a go. But it's not working out to be the simple job I imagined.

I got my hifi connected to my PC ok. Downloaded a program called AIPL
Singulator to split the audio into separate tracks. Clean my LP, start
the program, play the record - thought that would be it but I should
be so lucky.

The first problem is that the Singulator program doesn't appear to
split the tracks so that a new WAV file is begun at the starts of a
new track. That's if it detects the gap between tracks at all. I've
tried adjusting the settings but it seems a very hit-or-miss affair. I
end up having to cut and paste bits of WAV files myself.

The second problem is that, even though my LPs are not in bad
condition, I do get the occasional skip. Consequently I can't really
leave the PC to record one side of an album by itself. I have to sit
around monitoring it and then jumping in if I spot a problem. As I've
said - taking a lot of time - probably at least an hour per album.

Oh - and finally, for the CD player in the car to read the new CDs I
have to burn them at the very slowest speed so that again means more
time.

So all in all - I'm getting a bit fed up with this idea. Has anyone
got any tips where I'm going wrong?

AJ

Hi Andy - it is a labour of love ... I can produce cds pretty quick now:

Record the LP (hopefully it won't stick etc!) as 2 wavs;

Have a track/time listing handy. I use Music Wizard to do this before the
rip (also creates a cd case insert), psychicmp3* to do it after if
necessary;

Open the wav in an editor and copy and paste each track as new files,
labelling each with the track name as you go. You know the length of the
files from the track listing you printed out earlier. Useful particularly
for live albums, or any where tracks overlap with no silence.

It takes me less than 5 minutes per lp after recording this way. Any huge
clicks and pops I edit out by 'bending' the signal**, this takes longer.

Rob

*superb free prog that recognises names etc of mp3s
** magnify the portion where the click is and join the 'spike' at it's
lowest point. Use sonic foundry etc to do this - very effective!