I have ALOT of music on vinyl some, I really need to get to and of course am unable to find the cuts due to most of the 45's being radio copies. Now, the problem: how can I hook up a record device to the computer and from there to cd burning? All responses appreciated...and no you cannot find downloads to most of the songs I am specifically after.
Connect your player to your computer. Audio cables and adapters can be found at RadioShack, or even Wal-Mart. (Your computer probably has a line-in jack, or a microphone jack, or both. They're probably 3.5mm jacks, so I can tell you that's probably what you need at one end of the cable. The other end, I'm not so sure of, because I don't know what your record player looks like. (If you could describe the outlets that would help.) If you have two RCA stereo outputs (left, and right) you'd need a cable with two rca jacks (male) on one end, and a 3.5mm jack at the other end. It looks something like this. It's less than $5. I got one from Wal-Mart recently.) When that's done you have to record the audio with some kind of audio software. There's a lot of audio software, so I won't go into details. There's a free audio software called Audacity, that can record your audio, and edit the recording. Once you edit, you can save in any format you want, like mp3s or other, and then you can think about burning them to disc.
Wonderful, thank you. Now another part of the question...if I use a turntable will in need the receiver or will the computer work as one?
you will need some sort of pre-amplifier. the line in port on sound cards are line level, which is usually ~1 volt, but the output from turntables is called mic level, which is much much lower, somewhere around ~.025 volts. I would suggest connecting your turntable to the phono in on your receiver, then from your receiver take the line level RCA audio output, usually called tape output or something like that. Then using the cable ashroy mentioned about, connect that to the line in on your soundcard.
