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  • From: "Tim Flaherty" <mrdorkesq AT gmail.com>
  • To: "'RTP-area local music and culture'" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: USB turntable at Costco
  • Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:43:02 -0500

Good thing someone already digitized this for you then.

http://recordrobot.blogspot.com/2007/10/billy-joel-hun.html


-----Original Message-----
From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James Hepler
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:21 AM
To: RTP-area local music and culture
Subject: Re: USB turntable at Costco

I managed to get my whole billy joel collection
digitized and in itunes in a day.

A long but wonderful day.

I just thought I'd add that. I like Billy Joel.

--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Now, if someone built some kind of jukebox, or
> hotrodded an oldschool
> record-changer (hmm, do I need to describe/explain?
> I had one when I was
> like 8 years old, but they kind of disappeared from
> the market around
> that time . . . . you stack a bunch of records on
> top of each other on a
> special long spindle, with a record-killing
> metal/plastic arm resting on
> top of them to keep them from flopping all over the
> place, and then when
> one side finishes & the tonearm returns to home, the
> thing makes this
> kind of wippy-woppy noise and another record drops
> on top of the one
> already on the turntable, and it starts playing that
> one . . . hell on
> the vinyl, and since the height of the vinyl changes
> as you move through
> the stack, you don't get a lot of control over the
> stylus setup, but
> damn convenient when you're occupied with something
> other than sitting
> waiting for the album side to end), then I'd be all
> in favor of paying
> the big $$, if'n one could digitize a couplea dozen
> album sides without
> touching anything.
>
> But the hardware now isn't really much more advanced
> than you manually
> dropping the tonearm and clicking "start" on the
> screen, so yeah, it's
> all about the software. Goldwave used to be the gold
> standard for
> cheapskates, but I haven't used it in ages. I get
> the impression that
> there is software (such as, presumably, Pyro) where
> you click "go" and
> it sucks in 22 minutes of sound, waits until it
> thinks the side is over,
> then looks for the silences, cuts it into tracks,
> applies some default
> level of de-click, and spits out mp3s, all with
> little/no user interaction.
>
> That's worth paying for, and there's no need to buy
> some junky hardware
> to achieve that much.
>
> Not that I've gotten around to digitizing *any* of
> my vinyl yet, other
> than Th'Cigaretz, which I don't listen to now any
> more than I did before
> I had it in the computer, but whatever. One of these
> days, since Todd
> appears to not be getting around to releasing the
> Jettison Retrospective
> Box Set, I may digitize the Jettison back-catalog &
> put it on the web,
> (along with a hundred other local 7"s whose
> bands/labels have long since
> shuffled off this mortal coil) but don't hold yr
> breath.
>
> James Hepler wrote:
> > Before I got protools, I used a program called
> > Goldwave. It's shareware that instead of limiting
> > your use of the program to 30 days, it limits your
> > sessions to X number of clicks, let's you save,
> exit
> > the program and start it up again. I liked it so
> much
> > I actually bought it.
> >
> > But yeah, I could record a whole side, then
> > essentially highlight a section of waveform,
> choose
> > "save selection as", then Ctrl-X it and move on to
> the
> > next song. It even has a filter to reduce the
> pops
> > and hisses, although I don't do much of that.
> >
> > So, turntable into an old stereo, came out of the
> RCA
> > "tape" outs into the 1/8" analog input of my
> computer,
> > and that's it. My setup is a little more advanced
> > than that now, but it's essentially the same
> thing.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Assuming you already own a turntable, all you
> need
> >> is some kind of USB
> >> audio interface, either between your turntable
> and
> >> your computer (like
> >> this:
> >>
> >
>
http://www.amazon.com/ART-USB-Phono-Plus-Preamp/dp/B000BBGCCI
> >> --
> >> ~ $100) or between the line-level output of your
> >> stereo, and your
> >> computer, like this:
> >> http://www.zzounds.com/item--MDOTRANSIT (~$70 ---
> I
> >> have one of these, and while I don't use Windows
> or
> >> OSX, I can tell you
> >> that it works well under Linux)
> >>
> >> Your computer might even already have a
> line-level
> >> analog input on its
> >> normal sound-card, or have a "mic input" that's
> >> really basically just a
> >> line-level input.
> >>
> >> Then you can concentrate on finding the software,
> >> which is where the
> >> magic happens, assuming any magic actually
> happens.
> >> The hook for those
> >> USB turntables is that they're bundled with some
> >> cut-rate software that
> >> will take a 22-minute-long wav file (what you
> wind
> >> up with when you
> >> record a whole album side) and semi-automatically
> >> look for the gaps
> >> between songs, and probably do some rudimentary
> >> pop/click reduction, and
> >> spit out MP3s.
> >>
> >> They seem to be bundled generally with Cakewalk
> >> Pyro, which you can buy
> >> separately for $40:
> >> http://www.zzounds.com/item--CAKPYRO
> >>
> >> Or you can explore the wide world of other
> options,
> >> many of which are
> >> outlined in this dense page of text:
> >>
> http://magicref.tripod.com/digitalaudio/darmp3.htm
> >>
> >> I suppose it's possible that the all-in-one USB
> >> turntables actually have
> >> some software integration such that you can drop
> the
> >> needle & have the
> >> software on the computer start automagically
> (and/or
> >> click "rec" on the
> >> computer and have the tonearm lift & drop into
> >> position at the start of
> >> the record) but that's about as far as that's
> going
> >> to go, so how much
> >> would you pay for that?
> >>
> >> xo
> >>
> >> Ross
> >>
> >> James Hepler wrote:
> >>> I saw it at costco as well! I've head horible
> >> things
> >>> though. Word on the street is don't buy the USB
> >>> turntable.
> >>>
> >>> It looks cheaply made, and I'm sure the guts of
> it
> >> are
> >>> less reliable than if you were to buy a regular
> >>> technics or pioneer or whatever device. But
> hell,
> >> I
> >>> say buy it and let me know! I'm tired of
> >> digitizing
> >>> records the slow way!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --- DJ Golf <djgolf AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> So. Costco has, for $120, a USB plug-and-play
> >>>> turntable that you use
> >>>> to convert your records to digital audio files.
>
> >>>> Comes with software.
> >>>> Plays at 33 or 45, and the box says it
> "supports"
> >>>> playing 78's (I
>
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