Doesn’t address the “offsite” portion of your comment though…

Oh, that’s why you’re burning a CD, then ripping it to iTunes. That makes sense, then.

My only concern would be, burned CDs aren’t always that durable. I’d probably want to maintain a losslessly-compressed version in FLAC format on a hard drive somewhere. A drive that gets backed up routinely. It’s a LOT of work ripping all those LPs (or even ripping CDs), and I’d hate to lose any/all of that.

Which reminds me – I still need some sort of offsite backup solution.

Of course i loved “With truth being so hard to find … ”
but I’m surprised you didn’t use “Looking for Love in all the wrong places …”

lol

I was intrigued by the idea of looking for God versus the Devil and found God in 37 items (good for 2.3 hours of listening time) and the Devil shows up in only 28 items (1.6 hours). A search for “spirit” finds 27 matches (1.6 hours); “heaven” on the other hand finds 65 matches (4.7 hours) and “angel” checks in at 105 matches (7.4 hours).

Dan, I took a look at the link you provided, and it seems to match what I’m doing as far as the “plumbing” aka cable configuration goes. Is there a reason for why you’re suggesting not going to CD (audio) and then ripping to iTunes? One reason I am doing this is to have an audio disc that I can play in a player that doesn’t support mp3 formats. So there are two purposes for getting the disc made, it’s not just for iTunes.

http://www.delback.co.uk/lp-cdr.htm

There are software packages out there now which claim to make the process a lot easier. I ripped a few LPs to my computer back around 2000, and more recently ripped some old VHS Hi-Fi tapes. I found both processes rather involved.

My favorite audio editing software – GoldWave – made the whole process much easier. It’s a powerful and complicated package, but may be worth learning if you’re considering ripping 800(!!!) LPs. Last I checked GoldWave was still remarkably affordable.

One bit of advice – make sure you have lots of RAM (at least 2GB) and plenty of hard drive space. You’ll need it. I probably wouldn’t burn and then rip CD-Rs to iTunes, though. I think iTunes can directly convert .WAV files to other formats. If not, there’s a package out there which can access iTunes and use it to convert between various formats. The wonderful MediaMonkey media player software can also convert between various formats, including the .AAC format used by iTunes.

I’d probably rip to the lossless FLAC format – which GoldWave supports, along with MediaMonkey – edit in GoldWave, save the edited, cleaned FLAC copies for archival use, and then have MediaMonkey create 128kbps .AAC copies for use in iTunes and on iPods and iPhones.

Good luck!

Just to give you an applause for your RESEARCH!!!!

nod, what I did was hook my turntable to my tuner, and then the line out from the tuner goes into the line in on my sound card in my desktop. I used Nero to record and clean up the tracks. It has been doing a good enough job for me. From there I take the wav files and create an audio CD (also using Nero). I then “rip” the audio CD back into iTunes for use on my iPod.

I also looked at getting a USB turntable, but wasn’t impressed with any of the reviews. Since I already had the other equipment it was just as easy to do it that way.

Have you seen the laser turntable? Google it if you want; it’s an interesting concept.