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What is the easiest way to transfer a record to CD format. I found the Album Virtuoso Brass of three Great orchestras, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble and Chicago Brass Ensemble. Its the schools so i would like to try to make a copy of it since it will just sit here and collect dust.
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if you have a turntable, run it into your stereo. Take the 'tape out' from the stereo, probably 2 RCA jacks, 'Y' them into a mini stereo jack, put it into the line in on your PC.

It's not the best, but it serves the purpose.

Of course, that's a copyright violation. The album has been available on CD.

Otherwise, if you insist on doing the transfer , there are USB turntables and card/software packages to do the transfer much better. Prices start anywhere above $150 in my past research. I can't vouch for any of them personally.

Oh, but it will "just sit here and collect dust." That justifies stealing royalties from those performing groups, right?

I'm so sick of this cavalier attitude about copying music these days...I expect it from the general public, but not fellow musicians. It's theft, pure and simple.

Find a place called DVD Memories. I dont know if you have one near you but we have a couple around town. They can make you anything from old tapes, VHS, cassettes, records, etc..into dvd's or Cd's. Good luck. And they're right, dont sell them!

danzfat wrote:What is the easiest way to transfer a record to CD format. I found the Album Virtuoso Brass of three Great orchestras, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble and Chicago Brass Ensemble. Its the schools so i would like to try to make a copy of it since it will just sit here and collect dust.
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I think the record companies beat you to it:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... PE/tubenet
Just click the above link to buy a real copy, and send a few cents Sean's way too.

I have had my copy about 8 years and it is definitely a benchmark recording. Abe Torchinsky sounds absolutely fabulous.

Yeah i just found it online i didn't know it was available originally on CD. But thanks for the tips. Also this is ashame but in the twenty plus years that the school has had it has been stamped for check out in 1984, 1993 and by me. Its a crime that a great resource the school has doesn't get used. Same goes for the harvey phillips album, Toby hanks, summit brass CDS and many more. Also i am not cavalier about stealing music i thought that this LP was not in production as a CD otherwise i wouldn't have asked the ? I am going to get my self a copy from amazon i am excited.

tubashaman wrote:I believe the copyright rules say you cant copy more than 20% of a work for academic reasons.

With recorded music, it's 30 seconds or 10%, whichever is less.

If you get a turntable, you will need a good cartridge and not one of those heavy-duty DJ scratch contest nail through a board "cartridges" that seem to currently dominate the market. May I recommend a Stanton 681EEE as being a good mid-priced Hi-Fi cartridge.
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When I have tried recording onto a PC with a what-came-with-the-PC interface, it introduce some noise and compromised the sound a bit. So I record to either a CD recorder (Tascam CD-RW5000) or to a hard drive or flash card recorder (Fostex MR8HD and MR8 respectively) then read the bytes from the CD or flash card into the computer to edit thus incurring no added noise since we are now working with bytes. I'm sure there are Hi-Fi interfaces available for computers.

I don't think the recording industry is too worried about you re-recording an analogue source because: 1) It takes a lot of time, and to do it well requires some expense on your part. 2) Your copy will not be an exact copy, but suffer some degradation. Although the recording industry publicly bitched about it "back in the day", they never lost much sleep over people re-recording an analogue source because of 1 and 2 above. Plus, the fine lawyers of the recording industry eventually succeeded in breaking it off in the public's backside by getting a royalty charge added to blank cassettes by arguing (and probably bribing) that X percent of those cassettes would be used for illegal copying. Recall that there used to be "audio" CDRs? What do you think made those CDRs "audio" as opposed to "data" CDRs? One word: Lawyers. So, most likely, the great spectre of the copying of analogue sources probably made the recording industry a net profit off the phony royalty charges that got added on to other products.

It's the digital-to-digital copying that got their panties in a wad: It's quick, it's easy, it's exact, and they can't slap a royalty charge on every computer. But I'll bet they have tried.

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