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| From | Greg Cagle <gregc@gregcagle.com> |
| Subject | Re: CD recorder |
| Date | Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:19:36 -0700 |
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Stewart Mason said the following on 6/14/2004 9:51 AM:
> For myself, I just bought a Sony turntable with an internal preamp (about
> $80) and plugged it into the LINE IN jack on my sound card, using a $3
> adapter from Radio Shack that converts stereo RCA plugs to a 1/4-inch
> headphone-style plug. I bought an old Pioneer cassette player from a
> pawnshop for $25 for tape transfers. Unfortunately, my preferred
> recording/editing/cleanup software, Cool Edit 2000, is no longer available,
> but there are plenty of other good ones out there. (I think SoundForge is
> still around, and I know that recent versions of Cakewalk Pyro, which is a
> pretty good CD burner application, have vinyl cleanup tools as well.) So
> that's $108 for hardware, and I don't actually know how much the average
> software package costs these days, but my Cool Edit plus the audio cleanup
> plug-in cost a total of $118 and that was higher than most, so that's only
> $226 starting from scratch. I'm pretty sure that's cheaper than a
> standalone CD recorder.
I've used Roxio Easy CD Creator (now Easy Media Creator) with
good success - it has click and pop removal tools
and will separate the input stream into tracks automagically. The
newest version (7) is $74.99, but you can still get version 6 for
$39.88 at Amazon or download from roxio.com.
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Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com
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