Re: newbie question - digital jukebox from vinyl recordings

["egelbeertje" <r_d_k@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

the most annoying will be the conversion from vinyl to digital. I did
a few myself over the years (connect a turntable to a preamp and the
tape or line out to your pc's line in - then capture the sound while
the vinyl is playing - I usually do that with Soundforge - but it has
to happen real-time - basically meaning you have to sit next to it
just in case the needle skips - then you decide to do track by track
or 1 album side at a time and split up tracks later - whatever suits
best. This way you create some .wav files (you can still edit them -
with Soundforge for ex. to take out pops and cracks) which you can
then easily convert to mp3 (so far I did this with Audiocatalyst 2.1
set to 160 or 192kb sample rate)
The last stage in this process for me was to normalise the mp3's so
that when my jukebox plays them they all have more or less the same
volume (I use MP3gain for normalising and winamp to play for that)

On the other side, Kazaa, BitTorrent and WinMX have provided a faster
means to get the mp3's I wanted originally from vinyl ;-)- these only
needed some normalising.

hope this helps you.

rgds Rob.


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "andyb505" <andrew@b...> wrote:
> Any help appreciated folks:
>
> I have a large number of 7" vinyl singles (500+) and LPs (350+)
> that
> I would like to convert into a "digital jukebox". By this I
> mean I
> would like to record the records as MP3 (or some other digital
> format) onto some form of storage device (big PC, MP3 server etc)
> which I can then link to some form of distribution system to play
> around the house.
>
> Being new to all this digital technology I do not know where to
start
> looking for advice/guidance on how to approach this (I have looked
at
> some of the home automation web sites to get some ideas, but so far
> have not found one that can get me started sensibly).
>
> My first step would I imagine to identify how to convert and store
> the music and to be able to play them back in one place.
Distributing
> the sound around the rest of the house would wait until later.
>
> From what I have read I am assuming that a PC based control system
of
> some form would be required. Apart from this it seems that there
are
> a number of options for storage of the music (dedicated digital
music
> storage such as Imerge, MP3 servers, PC based storage, etc.)
>
> I am not a complete techniphobe and can cope with PCs, even a bit
of
> home networking would not be beyond me, but I am not electronically
> minded so I am not looking to build my own system, but would not be
> averse to trying to put together a PC based solution.
>
> Hope the above makes sense and I would be grateful for any advice
on
> where to start looking for advice/help.
>
> Andrew