"Dave G" wrote...
"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

I tried doing this a while back but ended up giving up. It just takes
too long. End the end I used Your Music On CD
(www.indicativeit.co.uk/yourmusiconcd) which seemed to do everything
for me.

Dave G

I've found the Your Music On CD site to be very good as well. They've
just transferred a load of my father's old vinyl records onto CD for
me to give to him as a christmas present. The CDs come with all the
usual labels and covers so the end product is very professional
looking and is ideal as a christmas present because they are so easy
to wrap up!

Cheers, Simon