I have a question "so please help guys", my Dad wants to copy some of his LPs to CD, Hardware no prob Record deck / Sound card/PC / cables, its the software we are not sure about, has anyone here copied and burnt LPs to CD ? if so what software would you recommend ?. i would be ever so grateful of any help

I have found > Download sound recorder and dvd creator software, save cassette to cd & lp to CD; video to DVD has anyone used this program ? wondering if the trial is full working ?

I've not used it, but I was reading on another forum where a guy had used it and was fairly pleased with it. According to him, the sound was not fantastic, like the original LPs (of course, they lose quality over time), but at least he now had it on a CD instead of a record.

I've got several records that I would like to have on CD, but I don't have any record players anymore. At one time, I was recording them on cassette, but the old ways did not make for any quality sound.

Other than spending the money for the hardware, I have a lot of cassettes that I would like to have on CD. Of course, it would probably cost more to buy the individual CDs.

Dave

Thanks Dave, i have downloaded it and its a two week trial "Full Working !", so we should get all the LPs done before the trial is up

When you've done some transfers, please be sure to let us know how it worked, especially around sound quality. Thanks.

Dave

Hi Dave

We are saving to HDD and burning this morning (we had to buy a ACR Stereo Cable and the 3.5mm "mini-jack" to RCA plug adaptor) connect the turntable, Amp to his Computer Sound card then we were ready to go (Note you can only transfer them in real time around 40 minutes for an LP, but the burning is a lot faster !).
Quality is very good as (hiss and silent gaps between tracks can be skipped), PolderbitS Sound Recorder and Editor is making a good job of converting LPs to CD-R (and its free if you get all your converting done within two weeks !)

I've done quite a lot of this, with a USB turntable (an excellent purchase). It came with Audacity software (free & open source, even better), which I already was using and which, IMHO, is actually the best software to use. Audacity can also filter the pops & clicks, but it's actually quite hard to get all the spikes off the recording - in the end I learned to just live with a few. I record with Audacity, clean it up, export the file to WMA then use more free software called Switch, to convert to MP3. I could simply export to MP3 in the first place, but why do it the easy way when there's a more interesting way, right??

Basically, with Audacity, if you can play it through the PC speakers, you can record it & convert to WMA or MP3....CD, DVD, Internet radio, line in...whatever. Which is quite cool.