78 records to CD

[treeman]

I wont to create CD's from my old 78's. I think that my Crystal onboard sound card will not cut it. I abviously need a sound card with good AD conversion. With everything goind digital (MP3 etc.) is there a good AD card available? I can't see several 100 $ for a stand alone AD.

[bassman]

As far as a specific soundcard, I don't have a solid recommendation. You might take a look at Price Watch (http://pricewatch.com) for better pricing. From there you can get better info on what the different cards will do (within your price range.)
Can't think of a good comparison site at the moment, but you might try a search on Google (http://www.google.com) for "Sound cards, comparison"
Good luck

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[mjc]

I have an HP Pavilion with Crystal onboard sound and it does a fairly decent job of ripping vinyl.

What program have you tried for converting?

Here (http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/) is a site dedicated to just music software.

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[Gallaeglagh]

You'll need an audio card with a line in, a cable that will bring your stereo AV to your line in (look at Radioshack), a program such as Music match to record to .wav and then you can burn to cdr

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[Gallaeglagh]

One other thing is that you'll need to fiddle with the Windows volume controls to get things right

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[baldrick]

Adaptec/roxio Easy CD Creator 4 deluxe or higher has software for recording, enhancing and recording to CD. wav and mp3 files are copied automatically as CD audio format.

Like you I wanted to copy old 78s, in the end I found them already in mp3 format on napster. There are many other mp3 dowloading sites around.

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[Blandings]

Baldrick,

Have you used the CD-Direct (Pro?) for transfering vinyls to CD-R?

I installed a CD-RW with CD-Direct shortly before my computer died, and they offered an upgrade. It seems that this software will take the scratches out of records??

That was my understanding of it, anyway. Wonder what it costs.

PS: My pc is still dead, so this is a moot point. But it shall live again! Maybe.

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