OT: Vinyl LPs to MP3 transfer

[Seymore4Head]

If/when that happens, listening to music is not going to be a big priority.

[thekmanrocks]

8:07 PMSeymore4Head wrote: "If/when that happens, listening to music is not going to be a big priority. "

You missed the point. NOTHING beats physical media and the gear to play it on or rip from.

[gfretwell]

Go look at one of the 8 or 10 other drives it is on and see if they got to it there too. As I said I load my music directory on every PC I own and I have a bunch.

[thekmanrocks]

"Go look at one of the 8 or 10 other drives it is on and see if they got to it there too. As I said I load my music directory on every PC I own and I have a bunch. "

Good for you. Can we negotiate a price for your physical collection(piece meal or by the dozen)?

[Seymore4Head]

I can't remember the last time I saw a turntable on the store shelves.

[thekmanrocks]

- show quoted text - I can't remember the last time I saw a turntable on the store shelves. "

I can't remember the last time I experienced such urge, as on this thread, to rid oneself of all physical music media and the equipment to play it on.

Pathetic and ignorant, at the very least.

[Tony Hwang]

Hi, USB output turntables are around not very expensive. May not be a super duper high audiophile quality tho.

[Roy]

They are quite adequate. The ION that Radio Shack tells works okay IMO. I have used mine for years and the price has gone down considerably as well. The important thing is to convert from reasonably clean and undamaged LPs. I have done hundreds so far and have about 300 LPs waiting for when I allocate some time.

There are lots of FREE programs around for editing, and nearly all computers today come with burning software.

[gfretwell]

I am using them all ;-)

I really do use PCs for all of my A/V needs. They are all on the network so it is easy to move stuff around. There is one under 4 of the 5 TVs here. The newest one is supposed to be "smart" but not nearly as smart as one hooked to a PC. To start with the MP3 player in my $1000 Samsung TV sucks as does the media player for watching stored movies. (I am also in the process of ripping all of my DVDs) I will keep them around but I doubt I will actually play them. BTW a PC is a better DVD player than a regular store bought DVD player. It is a whole lot easier to navigate straight to the move and not have to screw with manually skipping or enduring 5 trailers for movies you don't want to see.

[gfretwell]

I clung to my 8 tracks until the last player finally bit the dust in

1999 and I had a Beta machine well into the 80s. After a while I figured out newer technology is sometimes better. Ignorant is clinging to a technology that was obsolete 30 years ago. I imagine you still like tube amps and you can hear the oxygen in your speaker cables.

[gfretwell]

I will mention it again. Have you heard about the alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 groups? You can get very good rips of virtually any older song in seconds instead of spending hours trying to rip them. If you already own the record, you are not even stealing anything. You bought it.

[thekmanrocks]

[e-mail] wrote "Ignorant is clinging to a technology that was obsolete 30 years ago. "

I used to think like you - thank God I no longer do.

[makolber]

Yes thumbdrive in the band saftey deposit box is a VERY GoOd idea.. Wrap it in aluminum foil if you are really worried about EMP, All your pics and music and important docs should be backed up OFF SITE.

Mark

[Arnie]

+1

[Seymore4Head]

And, IMO, everyone should have one of these:

Buy one of these instead of paying the extra cash for a smart TV and you can move it from room to room. I have 4.

Maybe next generation will have a led display so you can play music without having to having to use the TV

[Dan Espen]

Now you've descended to name calling.

Wrong _and_ nasty. Nice combination.

If I was using a cloud backup, like for example a Google drive, my collection would be indestructible. Unlike any physical collection of CDs or vinyl.

[thekmanrocks]

net cop:

I got "nasty" because I'm frustrated by this notion of discarding a physical collection for files or cloud servers. Even if I did have a remote server, I'd still keep my physical collection.

Common sense.

[Stormin Mormon]

How much EMP will make it into a safe deposit tin, inside a metal bank safe? You think a wrap of tinfoil will add much protection, in addition to the 430,239,438,343 tons of rebar and hard plate?

- . Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus

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[gfretwell]

When you get my age you stop "collecting" and start getting rid of the useless shit you have been lugging around for 40 years. If I can get a 5 drawer filing cabinet worth of records on a thumb drive that fits in my pocket, I will. I wish I knew you a few years ago, I would have sent you 300 albums, CDs and a big stack of cassettes. I think my neighbor still has a hundred or two.

[thekmanrocks]

[e-mail] wrote: "I wish I knew you a few years ago, I would have sen t you 300 albums, CDs and a big stack of cassettes. "

That's very kind - and I would have gladly helped out with the shipping, LO L!

And even approaching your age I will likewise start paring down the clutter in my abode - but it will not include a lot of music media. My parents n ever got the chance to take a load off all the Disneyana(plates, figurines, dolls, wind-ups) that filled their house from floor to wall to ceiling, :( We ended up doing a fire sale just to get rid of most of it. Fortunat ely most of my music occupies 6 sq ft of floor space in one room, and a cou ple boxes of vinyl in the cellar.