From vinyl to .mp3
Music 01/03/2004 |The New York Times has a decent overview of how to transfer vinyl recordings to .mp3 (or AAC, or whatever your digital format of choice may be). This could come in very handy at some undetermined point in the future, whenever the family record collection swings my way again (currently I believe it’s in Fairbanks somewhere with Kevin’s stuff, though I’m not entirely sure).
(via Paul Beard and Cory Doctorow)
Update: MetaFilter links to another site looking at the same process: Converting Tapes and Records to CD.
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January 6th, 2004 at 5:03 pm
The traveling vinyl is currently in our living room. Kev moved everything out of Fairbanks and stored it in the garage. We resurrected the vinyl when I gave John a turntable for his birthday. But … we had snow melting down the chimney which pretty well flooded the area about to about 4 ft in front of the fireplace, where, of course, the box was with the records. All the jackets got wet up an inch or so, but we haven’t explored the vinyl itself since able to get that area dry.
Music not up your alley, but Kev & Emily captured my parents’ vinyl and have it all in Memphis now. He was thrilled at her boxed collections of classical music.
January 7th, 2004 at 12:49 am
Very cool — good to know that it’s all still around and accounted for! Hopefully the water damage was limited to the slipcases, and not the records themselves. I’d think that the vinyl would be less susceptible to getting wet than the cardboard covers would, anyway.
Maybe I’ll see if I can ship some of them down with me when I come up there in May (as long as Dad doesn’t mind too much — that’s great that there’s a working turntable up there again!).