Comments on: How to digitize records with Ubuntu, a USB Turntable and Audacity http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michael Blane http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15837 Michael Blane Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:19:01 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15837 Thanks for the article. I was having trouble: AT-LP2D turntable, Ubuntu 8.10 and audacity. As soon as I un-checked the “allow play-through while recording” everything worked.
I posted the URL for this page in my reply on http://www.linuxquestions.org. It’s tagged with: USB, Ubuntu, Turntable, Audacity.
Thanks again!

]]> By: Tony Pikus http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15813 Tony Pikus Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:56:55 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15813 Thanks for this article, this information works well for using Audacity in PCLinuxOS too, just download the Audacity program and bits from the repository using Synaptic.

]]> By: Lena http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15533 Lena Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:27:19 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15533 I read your article and I really want you to know about what I do. I own a small business in Seattle that transfers vinyl and tapes to digital format. We convert in bulk and have the capacity to convert 5,000 units a week. We have an automated system we run on so I pop in a tape and walk away. I clean a record, lay down the needle and move on. The computer does the audio trimming. We take pictures of the sleeves and then all the metadata – which includes artist, album and song info – is attached to each file. We have a pop and click filter we run on each album. You keep the rich, warm sound of vinyl but can put it on your iPOD and play it from your computer or in the car.

For example, we converted over 16,000 LPs for Santa Monica radio station KCRW. They said it woulda taken them 9 years to do it themselves. We did it in under 10 months. We are faster, cheaper and prove a higher quality than most people realize.

I just wanted to make sure you knew that something like what I do does, in fact, exist!

Check out Reclaim Media

Thanks for letting me share.
-Lena Baisden
Co-Owner Reclaim Media

]]> By: Lincoln http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15387 Lincoln Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:39:24 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15387 Don’t forget to wash that LP before transferring it!

The Discwasher system performs well and is affordable. Automated machines exists too but better complement more expensive systems.

Clean discs will present with less noise and greater resolution.

]]> By: John Laur http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15085 John Laur Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:40:16 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/30/how-to-digitize-records-with-ubuntu-a-usb-turntable-and-audacity/#comment-15085 While there isn’t much along this line in Linux, there are a bunch of really incredible noise reduction apps out there. Audacity has some noise filters that do the job, but once you hear what even the modestly priced stuff can do it becomes quickly evident that it’s got good value. It is my opinion that not even the most insanely expensive turntables will really help the sound of a record as much as a nice brush and some good algorithms will.

For converting LP and cassette tape in the past, I have worked with Sound Laundry and AudioGrabber (they can work together to pretty much automate the task). The results are insanely good.

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