Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

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Author: Sean Gibbins
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue
Clive Woodfine wrote:
> If you already have a turntable connected to a HiFi amp then feed its
> line out to an mp3 player that has a line in socket. I use a iAudio
> Cowen bought from [1]. You then have a good quality sound_file.WMA,
> unfortunately Windows format, which you can listen to directly or
> transfer to your computer and convert to other formats.
>
> [1] http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk
>


Alternatively you could Rockbox [1] an iAudio X5 or similar and then
record to a lossless format such as Wave, and then burn to cd or convert
to your lossy format of choice. I figured the laptop soundcard was the
lesser of two evils there, but I may well be wrong!

Sean

[1] http://www.rockbox.org/

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