Vinyl Directly to iTunes Library
Are there any latest/current hardware and software applications to place 33 1/3 vinyl albums directly into the iTunes Music library ?
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Are there any latest/current hardware and software applications to place 33 1/3 vinyl albums directly into the iTunes Music library ?
Examine the bigger picture. How many albums? Do they exist as CDs? How perfect do you want these renditions? If it is just an album or two and they have been released on CD you may find it worth just repurchasing the CD (or online versions)*. You will get a cleaner copy, and faster, and less than the hardware will cost. If you do this yourself and want a really clean copy then be prepared to invest quite a lot of time. I had a few albums with no electronic equivalent and I spent a all day, every day for a week hand-interpolating over every crack and pop. Oh, there's software that claims to do that, if you trust it.
*Unfortunately the record companies were never forced to give you a CD replacement at nominal cost (since most of your payment was not for the piece of plastic), and they probably raked in tons of money by making people re-purchase the whole thing if they wanted a CD copy. It was even worse with videos where you bought it once as VHS, then again as DVD, and then a third time as a digital copy.
Examine the bigger picture. How many albums? Do they exist as CDs? How perfect do you want these renditions? If it is just an album or two and they have been released on CD you may find it worth just repurchasing the CD (or online versions)*. You will get a cleaner copy, and faster, and less than the hardware will cost. If you do this yourself and want a really clean copy then be prepared to invest quite a lot of time. I had a few albums with no electronic equivalent and I spent a all day, every day for a week hand-interpolating over every crack and pop. Oh, there's software that claims to do that, if you trust it.
*Unfortunately the record companies were never forced to give you a CD replacement at nominal cost (since most of your payment was not for the piece of plastic), and they probably raked in tons of money by making people re-purchase the whole thing if they wanted a CD copy. It was even worse with videos where you bought it once as VHS, then again as DVD, and then a third time as a digital copy.
You can look up Ion Turntables. There may be others. As far as I am aware the process is fairly hands on in that you'll have to choose your cut points and enter all the metadata.
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Vinyl Directly to iTunes Library