help ripping albums

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:15 pm

So, I'm about to dump XM because they refuse to bring back 2 of my favorite channels since the merger. I'm about 1/2 done ripping my CD's and I'm amazed I already have about 12 gig of music files. I bought my son's 4gig IPod and the iTunes software is easy enough to use.

Now, I have 300+ albums (yeah, vinyl for you young whippersnappers) that I need to go digital. My old turn table is on it's way back home and I have the connectors to the PC. What I need is some advice for software. Problem w/ albums is how to break the songs up and enter the data. I figure I'll have to manually enter the info, but is there any software that assumes the pause to be a song break?

Any advice you have is appreciated!!

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:22 pm

What 2 channels are you missing?

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:29 pm

I too recently completed this hateful project. Between my wife and I we came up with 64GB total of music.

One option, although I don't know if it's the best option, is something like Audicity. Windows, and I'm sure other OS's have the ability to record what's coming in on a input channel. After recording the entire Album into something like a .wav that's were you could use Audicity to copy and paste selected portions into tracks. I will note a disclaimer that I have never worked with a file as big as a whole album, but on smaller stuff it is rather easy.

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

http://www.bestshareware.net/download/a ... ulator.htm

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:39 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

What 2 channels are you missing?

Beyond Jazz and Fine tuning. Beyond Jazz had some great acid jazz that Watercolors never plays. On XM, there was 3 jazz channels, now after the merger, only 2 that count. Fine Tuning was non-genre, so you got hit w/ everything. The randomness of that channel made it fun. Now after the merger, there are no random play channels.

Last I counted, there were almost 30 R&R channels of some sort. They are doing a great dis-service to niche listeners.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:40 pm

Wes Eargle wrote:

http://www.bestshareware.net/download/aiplsingulator.htm

Wow, that looks great. Have you used it? Looks like it's worth the $25 to use it.

George Bright · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:27 pm

I use Roxio easy media creator to convert my albums. It makes mistakes importing track information because it is looking at CDs and not vinyl albums for the information.

Jeb Brookshire · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:18 pm

There are actually some USB record players as well that IIRC start around $125 or so.

Carlton Whitehead · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:32 pm

Have a look at Audacity before you spend money:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/

Matthew Fortner · **Joined:** Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:21 am **Posts:** 384

This was the easiest for the buck method I found:
http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-iMic-USB- ... B000BVV2IC

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:51 pm

Michael Westerfield wrote:

I too recently completed this hateful project. Between my wife and I we came up with 64GB total of music.

I'm coming over to party with you guys. How many albums do you think that would be?

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:05 pm

Matt McGrain wrote:

Michael Westerfield wrote:

I too recently completed this hateful project. Between my wife and I we came up with 64GB total of music.

I'm coming over to party with you guys. How many albums do you think that would be?

I estimated at about 70MB per album it would be around 900 or so.

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