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Much easier to use than a conventional audio editor, transferring your albums to your computer is simple and straightforward.įrom there, play them in your favourite audio player, burn them to CD, download them onto your mobile device or stream them around your home.

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Besides, it’s fun… and records can be traded or sold, which can’t be done with Spotify or iTunes.VinylStudio is software dedicated to converting your records and tapes to digital format. Vinyl has a finite number of times it can be played before it gets worn out, and this keeps your collection in nearly unplayed shape. It isn’t the same as cleaning the record and dropping the needle, but it’s really close. For casual listening, I just hit the spacebar on my computer. For me, it’s a super way to preserve my collection, which includes a small number of fairly expensive and hard-to-replace classics. Overall there aren’t a number of big changes with the program over the previous version, which is a relief. Then it’s a matter of trimming the breaks between the tracks to make the start and stop more accurate.Īnother great advantage of the program is bringing the album into my iTunes library, which is a simple one-button affair. Sometimes it doesn’t work, like when the database can’t find a record, or more rarely, when there were several different versions of a record on vinyl or CD and the order of the songs has been rearranged. This way, you are saved the work of typing in each track name individually. This is where the program is a huge time-saver… dividing the file into individual songs, and looking through databases on the internet for the track names. With that done, I then bring the file into Vinyl Studio for final work. I’ll manually optimize the file and balance the tracks if necessary. But it’s rare that I’ll do further noise reduction… a certain amount of minor clicks and crackle is a part of the vinyl experience, and too much cleanup destroys the character. I’ll then declick the guard bands in between songs. Once recorded, I bring the PCM10 upstairs and download the file into my computer.įirst I usually apply a rumble filter which greatly cleans up the waveform, then scan for really obnoxious pops and fix these individually. I’ve only done this experimentally though. Once dry, it peels away from the vinyl, taking specks of dust and dirt with it. A somewhat risky way to clean really dirty albums is with a thin layer of Elmer’s glue. One of these days I’ll build an utrasonic/ centrifugal record cleaning machine. (three parts distilled water, one part pure isopropryl alcohol, and one or two drops of Dawn dish detergent to break the surface tension.

I always clean the surface of the vinyl with a water-alcohol solution.

The biggest reason is that my turntable is downstairs in the basement, and my audio workstation is in the office upstairs. With VinylStudio Lite you can: Rip LPs to WAV files.

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While you can use VinylStudio to record the file directly into your computer, I record onto a Somy PCM10 recorder. The PP 4 comes with a Mac and PC compatible version of AlpineSofts VinylStudio Lite ripping software.

I mainly use Adobe Soundbooth CS5 for editing and noise reduction, but for really difficult situations, I’ll use Izotope RX Pro. Besides, they cost a pile of money so I’d rather use them than let them sit. It’s not because Vinyl Studio can’t do the job, it’s just that I’ve been using other programs for editing and noise reduction for years and I’m more familiar with them.

The program has a capable noise reduction section, but I use other programs for this job.

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You can use it to burn CDs of your records if you like, or save the files in a number of different formats besides MP3s, including WAV, AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format), ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), DFF, DSF, (there are different types of Direct Stream Digital formats) FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec), and OGG (Ogg Vorbis open-source format). Track listings are written to audio CDs, for those. Both Audio and MP3 CDs can be created and VinylStudio can also export the track listing in a format that most CD-cover editors can read. Just drag the tracks or albums that you want to write to CD to the right-hand pane and click Burn. At $30, its a fairly inexpensive, yet still pretty capable program. This screenshot shows VinylStudios CD burning window. VinylStudio was designed to be a standalone program for getting your vinyl records onto your computer. Here I’m working on a transfer for a client in Nashville called “A Christmas Delight” by Winifred Smith, cut in 1967… not likely to show up on iTunes anytime soon.

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