Recording from tapes and LPs

[MorseLady]

Could someone please tell me exactly how to record the input from the hi-fi already linked to my PC and convert to WMA/WAV/MP3 so that I can put music from my tapes and LPs on to CD with my CD Writer? I am using Windows Me on a new computer.

[Kymera]

Do you need something very detailed like a step-by-step walk-through or something more like an overview of how you would accomplish recording from an external input?

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Done this one many times.
Hook your phono to reciever and line outs from reciever to line in on sound card. Creative Sound Recorder works fine. Start the recorder program, record the whole side of the LP as one WAV file. When finished use WAV editor to cut and paste the songs to separate files. Name them, convert to MP3 to store and voila.

[MorseLady]

Thanks for the replies but I am not quite sure what you mean James as I am not using a phono, but a hi-fi and the LPs will be put on tape first so I can Dolby them. Yes, Kymera, I do need a detailed walk through.James, I do not have a Creative. I have GS wavetable and crystal sound, Intel Celeron 667mhz with Intel 810 shared. How do I convert the WAV files to a format like MP3 or WMA to put on CD?

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Go to http://www.nonags.com. thjey ahve several wav to mp3 converters there. Sound Forge works well if you have it. You can use Windows sound recorder. Dont know what the interface is like, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. All you really need as far as hardware goes is a dual RCA male to single 1/8 inch stereo patch cable to go from hifi to line in on sound. If you want detailed step by step, e-mail me a [email protected] and I send you instrctions and diagrams
Jim

[MorseLady]

Thank you James. Looks like being a radio ham is going to come in handy fixing up cables. I will get back to you if I need any further help and thanks again.
Angie/morselady

[Sandwich]

http://www.cdrfaq.org/ Go here It's my bible on the subject.

[Platypus]

I'd suggest don't bother putting onto tape first, get a copy of the trial CoolEdit from the Syntrillium website, use it to record LP's directly to hard disk, and do digital noise reduction, more effective than Dolby.

LP's can clean up quite nicely this way.

The signal will be recorded as WAV files and your CD burner software will write them to the CD as audio tracks if you specify to create an Audio CD. If you convert to MP3 you will need to play the CD in an MP3 player.