Records?

[tonkatoy]

does anybody here still listen to records? Like on a record player?

[alphanumeric]

A friend told me a story once about how they threw a 50's/60's party and hung a bunch of old 38's from the ceiling, and his 5 year old daughter came in the room and asked what kind of CD's were those?

[tonkatoy]

i used to love watching the player when i was a kid, watchign the needle drop, hearing the scratch, I kind of miss it.

[peggygee]

Yeah, I still have quite a bit of vinyl, though some I converted to cds,
mp3s, etc. Vinyl takes up alot of space, but nothing beats looking at
the album covers, reading the liner notes, and the sound of vinyl.

[ezed]

Yeah, I still have quite a bit of vinyl, though some I converted to cds,
mp3s, etc. Vinyl takes up alot of space, but nothing beats looking at
the album covers, reading the liner notes, and the sound of vinyl.

Hey peggy, how did you do that? I would love to convert my vinyls to cd's.

[qeuqheeg222]

man i had hundreds of old albums,some collectable smithsonian field recording of leadbelly and burmese drummers,,old blues,jazz,60's rock but most of it got looted from my house in the wake of hurricane katrina...i got about 100 of what the thieves didnt take..
out of all the shit that got looted i think the vinyl bothers me the most cuz of the sentimental factors involved with some of the record-i had some since i was 3yrs old...

[SarahG]

I listen to records all the time still.

Yeah, I still have quite a bit of vinyl, though some I converted to cds,
mp3s, etc. Vinyl takes up alot of space, but nothing beats looking at
the album covers, reading the liner notes, and the sound of vinyl.

Hey peggy, how did you do that? I would love to convert my vinyls to cd's.

I have done it before using my stereo system & my computer.

Go to radoshak and get the adapters to go from the audio out headphone jack on your stereo amplifier/head unit to the mic port on your computer.

You then need a program to use on your computer for making mp3s or whatever from your mic port... lots of open source software exists for this so you really don't need anything commercial.

Then treat the mp3s as you would any normal mp3.

[youcancallmeclaire]

I have some vinyl. Mostly random stuff I picked up at garage sales or off the side of the street waiting to go to the dump. Actually, the only record I intentionally sought out a copy of was In the Court of the Crimson King.

[ezed]

I listen to records all the time still.

Yeah, I still have quite a bit of vinyl, though some I converted to cds,
mp3s, etc. Vinyl takes up alot of space, but nothing beats looking at
the album covers, reading the liner notes, and the sound of vinyl.

Hey peggy, how did you do that? I would love to convert my vinyls to cd's.

I have done it before using my stereo system & my computer.

Go to radoshak and get the adapters to go from the audio out headphone jack on your stereo amplifier/head unit to the mic port on your computer.

You then need a program to use on your computer for making mp3s or whatever from your mic port... lots of open source software exists for this so you really don't need anything commercial.

Then treat the mp3s as you would any normal mp3.

Thanks, now what programs make mp3's from the mic port? This is my missing link.

[SarahG]

I listen to records all the time still.

Yeah, I still have quite a bit of vinyl, though some I converted to cds,
mp3s, etc. Vinyl takes up alot of space, but nothing beats looking at
the album covers, reading the liner notes, and the sound of vinyl.

Hey peggy, how did you do that? I would love to convert my vinyls to cd's.

I have done it before using my stereo system & my computer.

Go to radoshak and get the adapters to go from the audio out headphone jack on your stereo amplifier/head unit to the mic port on your computer.

You then need a program to use on your computer for making mp3s or whatever from your mic port... lots of open source software exists for this so you really don't need anything commercial.

Then treat the mp3s as you would any normal mp3.

Thanks, now what programs make mp3's from the mic port? This is my missing link.

I use Amadeus but I am also a mac user (assuming you use win).