I would like to add old music from my 78,45 & 78 records to my shared files so others can appreciate music that I have not seen in my searches.

I was wondering if any of you folks are into adding songs to their computers from other sources such as this. I am wonderning what some good equipment is that I might purchase to do this. I want it simple ... ( As I prefer to be..) Something that will recognize the breaks between songs and allow me to title them later. I would like to have something one might call affordable..

I have a few hundred old records in my closet. I even have original 45's that my disc jockey brother in law never played on his radio show back in the 50's & 60's.

you don't need any special equipment per se....

because of line levels, you can't connect your turntable directly to your sound card, you must instead go through your amplifier, and using one of the outs (like a tape out, or auxiliary out) connect that to your card's inputs...and since you most likely don't have a pro-audio card with rca ins and outs, you will need an rca to 3.5mm adaptor...either a local music store or radio shack should have that...

so that's all the 'equipment' you really need...

and taking that into account, anybody should be able to read between the lines and know that 'piracy' will never be stopped..this whole concept of copy protection is a total, complete, waste of money..the only ppl who benefit are the jerkwads who say their software 'protects', which it obviously does NOT..end of discussion...

so, now you have the hardware..so some software is needed to record the music as a .wav file, and then convert to .mp3...

unfortunately, I am really the wrong person to ask about the software side of it, as I am a registerered Cubase SX user, and that's the software I use to do what you are referring to..it will record the stuff...allow me to edit to individual tracks...eq, denoise, declickerize it all, and go from there to compress to mp3 so that I can listen to stuff I own (or have created myself) on my computer...

hopefully a knowledgable person who knows of some good freeware will post in addendum to this and help you out....

and of course, we all know that this is for your own personal use, now isn't it?

The only freeware I'm aware of that can record & edit, is Audacity (free & open source) - click on link & you'll need to downld the program, manual, & plug-in enabler, separately from their site. (You'll also find links to 3rd party plug-ins for cleaning up sound.) It's not a bad program considering its abilities & is better than many similar capacity sharewares. It also accepts VST plug-ins. With Audacity you can open & save into mp3 or wav or ogg vorbis formats. Initially, you would save your recording into wav as this is a lossless format that doesn't lose quality when you save into it or resave into it.

That you PEERLESS..

It is not my intention to PIRATE. I have records that date back to the Victrola days. I don't intend to sell them or distribute them.
I may make some available via LIMEWIRE.

I want to use the computer to take the scratches, clicks, and hisses out. I can't find good diamond needles any more to play the 33's or regular ones for the 78's and 45s. I use a safety pin to play the wind up Victrola. I want to save these to a modern media so I can enjoy the music of my life. I wouldn't know who to pay royalties to anyhow on music that predates most of the people. In regards to song Greensleaves someone once said that we might pay royalties to the Royals for it.

Actually I have many 45s which were sent to my brother in law to play on the radio by hopeful writers and singers. Where they never were hits and many never played I would say there is a problem for the originator. The secret to getting on the air the first time was basiscally a $50.00 bill in the envelope.


What I do with the music I download from LW is to put it on those small jump disc devices. I then taake them with me and plug them into the cigarette lighter player which transmitts to my truck radio. I have a lot of songs in my glove box. I get to pick and choose the songs I like.

OK one group that might object to my copying music. The I.R.A. !!
Yeah I never paid a nickle to hear Johnson's Motor Car, Victoria or the Rising of the Moon... But what Yankee from Massachusetts has??

I don't know what burner program you use, but on the mac, I use Roxio Toast which comes or came with a utility called Spin Doctor. This was effective in removing pops & some scratches. But you'd need to re-equalise to boost back the frequencies because it filters out the higher frequencies. Pops & cracks tend to be very high frequency & only last for a few milliseconds so they're often easy to find when viewing on an edit window. The quieter ones are difficult to get rid of though as are some other scraping type noises. Checking Audacity I notice it has click removal & noise removal. I'm not sure if they came with the program or were 3rd party downlds. It takes practice to learn to use those types of tools safely & knowing how much to add back when equalising.