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Go to www.creativelabs.com and check. Oh, my cuz bought one of these and can now do studio quality recording at his house now.
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Posted: 2005-04-12 15:25:11
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I don't think it's possible to go straight into an MP3 player. The 'easiest' way is:
1. Connect the headphone socket of your stereo to the 'line-in' socket of your PC's sound card, using an appropriate cable (usually just a 3.5 inch stereo plug-to-plug lead, available from any hifi shop)
2. Set the volume control of your hifi to VERY LOW so as to avoid damaging your sound card.
3. Use windows sound recorder to record the vinyl as a .wav file. You'll need several test-records to gradually increase the hifi's volume control to a level that produces a good recording volume but no distortion.
4. Use 'Cdex' (freeware, do a google for it) to convert the .wav to .mp3
5. Burn the .mp3 to disk or transfer to your mp3 player.
There's various peices of software available that can process the .wav files to get rid of pops and hiss, but they're all commercial.
You can use any soundcard with a simple line-in socket but as Govi suggested, you'd get much better results with an Audigy card that has dedicated inputs for doing this kind of thing.
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Posted: 2005-04-12 18:46:37
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if you aint got a pc the other way is to use a cd recorder a good one thats not to expensive is the pionner 609 its can but used as a stand alone cd player can copy cds and can accept inputs form vinyl tape md etc.
i have one myself and have recorded direct from vinyl and burnt it to a cd,
the results are far better than using a pc as the hdd is often doing other things and can cloud the recording ( not always noticable until you really listen)
one of these would set you back arond £150 but if your gonna do a lot of copying it pays dividens in the long run
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Posted: 2005-04-12 18:53:23
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@cyco, your idea is the practical one. But my on board sound has no aux in. Only mic. Can you put speaker outputs to mic?
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Posted: 2005-04-12 18:54:37
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@Govi
No, because the mic socket has a totally different input impedence to a line-in socket. It works on much lower currents and voltages. It would most likely sound terrible or could even damage your sound card and / or hifi.
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Posted: 2005-04-12 19:43:09
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@beeb
I like slattery69's idea best of all! Probably work out cheaper in the long run, certainly a lot easier and will produce the best results
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Posted: 2005-04-12 19:53:11
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@cyco, yeah man, was just cofirming that
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Posted: 2005-04-12 19:56:29
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I use Audiograbber (free at download.com),line in goes to the record input of my mixer,which has my dvd,ps2,sky tv,fm tuner,2 record decks and almost anything else u can plug in it using standard phono leads. It copies straight to mp3 at 56kbps,then i convert if i need to.And it didnt cost a thing :-D
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Posted: 2005-04-13 05:42:43
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Don't you think 56k is too little to record anything?
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Posted: 2005-04-13 05:46:23
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