From: "David Evans" <davidcerievans@hotmail.com> Subject: Analogue to digital CD burners I'm using Windows XP and I'm looking to get some software that allows me to record old LPs and cassettes onto my hard drive, edit them and burn them to CD.
To get a vinyl record to cd, this is what I do. 1. Vinyl input (via mixer) to soundcard 2. record as wav file using Creative Labs Wave Recorder 3. edit wav file (remove pops, initial silence, final silence, divide a side of vinyl into individual tracks, etc) using Creative Labs Wave Studio 4. (This step is optional) Convert to mp3 using freeware wav --> mp3 converter 5. burn to cd using Easy CD creator from either wav or mp3 source. The Creative Labs Wave Recorder and Wave Studio came free with my sound card. Or, you use to be able to buy it from the site for $14.99. You can spend a couple hundred dollars on fancy wav editing software to automatically remove pops from vinyl, but I don't think any general algorithm beats visually examining the wav file in Wave Studio and fixing the glitches by hand. For this purpose, any freeware wave editor will suffice. You need lots of RAM though. If you have a 90 minute cassette and you record one side as a wav file, that about 500 MB. You want your editor to manipulate the file exclusively in RAM. If you use virtual RAM (hard-drive space), it is dog slow. So, lots of RAM makes editing large wav files a much more pleasant experience. David K.