My 13 y.o. daughter is developing musical tastes that I think may be interested in a bunch of my old LP's from 40-odd years ago. I have a turntable of an unknown quality and I think I have an amplifier... How would I go about plugging them into a desktop to make CD's? Or would it just be easier to buy the CD's, if they're available?
definitely easier to just find the CDs
with your existing amp you might need an adapter to plug into the audio-in/microphone port on the PC. Then use recording software to make tracks. Some can automatically make new tracks every time there's a pause of however many seconds. I haven't done this in a LONG time so I don't know what's good any more.
In reply to j_tso :
Agreed. Best to just try to find CD's.
You can record to computer with an Analog to Digital Converter plugged straight into the turntable.
My dad bought a cheap turntable with a usb outlet. The supplied software was SO bad, we never did play with it enough to do any.
In reply to stroker :
I have a Ion turntable that has both a pre amplifier and the analog to digital converter built it. It's possible to rip the vinyl onto the computer and convert it to a digital file but it's a lot of work. I haven't bothered in a long time and honestly I have CD's that replicate most of my vinyl anyway. So of course I pay a Spotify subscription now and use that for almost all my listening now. (Might be an option too, find the songs on one of the streaming platforms.)
Most "new" amplifiers don't have the pre-amplifier needed to use a good magnetic pick up so the Ion is useful if only just for playing my old records a few times a year. It's fun and they still sound great.
You'll need to log in to post.
