Hi,

My middle-aged PC (Athlon 700 / 256Mb / 30 Gig) has no sound card and I
want to buy one. I also want to transfer some of my favourite vinyl to
CD. Can I do this with a basic soundcard + software or would I do
better to buy a more advanced soundcard maybe with its associated
software?

Thanks for any info.

John Smith.

wrote:
Hi,

My middle-aged PC (Athlon 700 / 256Mb / 30 Gig) has no sound card and
I want to buy one. I also want to transfer some of my favourite vinyl
to CD. Can I do this with a basic soundcard + software or would I do
better to buy a more advanced soundcard maybe with its associated
software?

Thanks for any info.

John Smith.

Any ordinary sound card will do. The card will come with software or you can
download freeware to record, such as Goldwave or Audiograbber.

Your machine could already have a sound card, or one could be built into the
main board, just disabled via a jumper and/or in the machine BIOS.

Most machines of this vintage would have come with some sort of sound card,
unless you built it yourself or pulled the old card for some reason.

Mark Z.

"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote ...
J.W.T.Smith wrote:
My middle-aged PC (Athlon 700 / 256Mb / 30 Gig) has no sound card and
I want to buy one. I also want to transfer some of my favourite vinyl
to CD. Can I do this with a basic soundcard + software or would I do
better to buy a more advanced soundcard maybe with its associated
software?

Thanks for any info.

John Smith.

Any ordinary sound card will do. The card will come with software or
you can download freeware to record, such as Goldwave or Audiograbber.

Your machine could already have a sound card, or one could be built
into the main board, just disabled via a jumper and/or in the machine
BIOS.

Most machines of this vintage would have come with some sort of sound
card, unless you built it yourself or pulled the old card for some
reason.

Yes, everything that Mr. Zacharias said. But remember
that you cannot plug a turntable directly into any sound
card. You need a phono (aka "RIAA" or "gramophone")
preamp of some kind. You can buy a small, standalone
box, or you could use the preamp built into your receiver
(use the "Tape Out") to plug into the line-in of the PC's
soundcard, etc.

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Hi,

My middle-aged PC (Athlon 700 / 256Mb / 30 Gig) has no sound card and I
want to buy one. I also want to transfer some of my favourite vinyl to
CD. Can I do this with a basic soundcard + software or would I do
better to buy a more advanced soundcard maybe with its associated
software?

Thanks for any info.

John Smith.


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Hi,

My middle-aged PC (Athlon 700 / 256Mb / 30 Gig) has no sound card and I
want to buy one. I also want to transfer some of my favourite vinyl to
CD. Can I do this with a basic soundcard + software or would I do
better to buy a more advanced soundcard maybe with its associated
software?

Thanks for any info.

John Smith.



It would be easier and much faster to install Limewire and SoulSeek, then
get all your favourites as MP3 files. Don't forget PeerGuardian and a
decent firewall.
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your system.
256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

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Jim wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

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In article ,
Jim wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file with 256
MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

MrT.

Mr.T wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jim wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file with 256
MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

MrT.



If you want to *edit* a 25 minute decent resolution music file, and the
software has an 'undo' facility, things will slow up considerably.

In article ,
Mr.T MrT@home wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article , Jim
wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file with
256 MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

When I first started doing this under RISC OS, I was happily 'topping and
tailing' LP tracks with 30 MB of RAM.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Mr.T
MrT@home wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article , Jim
wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to
HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file
with 256 MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

When I first started doing this under RISC OS, I was happily 'topping
and tailing' LP tracks with 30 MB of RAM.

FWIW I tend to do this kind of thing by manipulating the files on HD. Thus
only needing to load far less than a MB into RAM at any time during the
process. This also using RISC OS, although I assume much the same can be
done with other OSs.

Users of RO who also subscribe to 'Archive' magazine will have seen some
examples detailed in recent months. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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