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December 20, 2005
Talk about convergence...
I recently finished a favor for a friend in which I digitized a bunch of records (and, I’m talking vinyl LPs). My friend, Jami, had the idea of giving some of her family members some of their old favorite albums on CD for Christmas.
Cool idea, lot’s of work.
These are pretty old records that probably aren’t too easy to find on CD (well, maybe a couple of them), so I was happy to help out. When I was finished, I even took the liberty of going one step further and coverting the audio files to MP3s so that I could play them in iTunes.
As I was sitting in my office over the weekend converting solid black vinyl into intangible digital bytes, I was laughing about how funny it looked to combine all of the different technologies that were required: a record player plugged into an amplifier plugged into a mixer pluggined into a computer… See? Funny.
So, all this to say that I’ve always been curious about how the conversion from vinyl to MP3 would turn out. And, it’s really not that bad. Aside from occasional pops, clicks, and scratches (which all depend on the shape of the record to begin with), the sound quality actually turned out pretty good. If any of you would like any tips from a (now) seasoned expert, let me know.
Posted at 2:38 pm
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