[ale] vinyl records

[Ron Frazier]

HI Geoffrey,

That's interesting info to know.  I can imagine the "younglings" in our 
readership saying isn't a turntable what you put a car on at an auto 
show, and isn't vinyl what the seats are made of?

It's kind of amusing (in a bad way) that some vinyl records have better 
longevity than some DIY CD's and DVD's.  Organic Dye failures and all that.

I still have a decent Technics turntable that I bought from Best Buy or 
Hi Fi Buys years ago just because it was clear that they were 
disappearing.  This comment won't apply to anyone without a turntable.  
I haven't given this any thought previously, but couldn't I simply get 
an adapter cord at Radio Shack and plug the output of the turntable into 
the mic input of the computer and run some capture software on it?  
Could I do the same thing with cassette tapes?

Just out of curiosity, what audio file format do you use for 
conversion?  What kind of compression do you get?  I've got about 60 
CD's I captured to 56 KBps MP3 years ago.  I can actually hear the 
compression artifacts in them if I listen closely.  Some I've converted 
to 128 KBps.  That's much better.  I've thought about bumping them up to 
256 or 320 (I think that's the max).  Of course, you lose compression 
and increase size when you bump that up.  If you're trying to stuff 600 
songs on a portable MP3 player, that can become an issue.  According to 
the technical podcasts I listen to, apparently most people cannot hear 
the difference between a CD and a 192 KBps MP3.  I know OGG is also an 
option, but I don't know much about it.  My Sansa Fuze+ player can play OGG.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 10/4/2011 8:33 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> I still have my old Kenwood turntable.  I've got 400+ vinyls.  For those
> that I can find either cd or other digital technology, I've figured it
> was worth my time to simply repurchase them in the new format.  I do
> have a good number of albums from small local bands that never made it
> beyond the vinyl.  Those I am in the process of converting.
>
> The usb turntables I've seen have not gotten very good reviews.
>    

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