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Hi Everyone,

I hope that the link below works, usually whenever I try links they become
disjointed.

My question is this. I want to put my records onto my computer then
transfer them onto CD's as a backup.

I don't want to go to the expense of purchasing a USB Record Deck so I was
thinking that one of the following items may do the job.

If you've got a normal sound card or intgrated audio on your computer (as
almost all do these days) and you have a record player and amplifier that
you can play your records on, then all the hardware you need is a phono to
3.5mm stero jack lead.

Connect the signal from the "tape out" sockets on your amp to the "line in"
socket on your computer via this lead and you are away. You will need some
software, Audacity does the job, and it's free.

David.

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"the_constructor" wrote in message
...

Hi Everyone,

I hope that the link below works, usually whenever I try links they become
disjointed.

My question is this. I want to put my records onto my computer then
transfer them onto CD's as a backup.

I don't want to go to the expense of purchasing a USB Record Deck so I was
thinking that one of the following items may do the job.

If you've got a normal sound card or intgrated audio on your computer (as
almost all do these days) and you have a record player and amplifier that
you can play your records on, then all the hardware you need is a phono to
3.5mm stero jack lead.

Connect the signal from the "tape out" sockets on your amp to the "line in"
socket on your computer via this lead and you are away. You will need some
software, Audacity does the job, and it's free.

I could do this with Total Recorder, but only have the one problem of needing
to actually get round to doing it. What software will help me do that?
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David Looser wrote:

Connect the signal from the "tape out" sockets on your amp to the "line in"
socket on your computer via this lead and you are away. You will need some
software, Audacity does the job, and it's free.

Agreed. That's the way I've transferred some of my tapes. As someone
else said though, it's a time-consuming process.

Audacity is good for the money (none whatsoever), but there are programs
out there which will automatically split recordings into tracks by
"listening" for silence between songs. This will result in "proper" CDs
which allow you to skip from track to track. Steinberg produce a program
which will do the above and will also remove clicks and pops (and up to
a point hiss) before generating the CD.

All the above can be done in Audacity - possibly better, but it's a
manual process which takes some time and knowledge to achieve.

Adrian