I'm about to start doing a similar project. Well, identical. One thing to look out for is the fact that most turntables do not have built in preamps. That means the signal coming out needs some serious EQ on the low end. (standardized by our friends at the RIAA, the people who want to jail us for doing this.. ) Check out http://www.platenspeler.com/background/riaa/uk_riaa_background_1.html If you have a receiver with a phono input, make it easy and just go from the aux out on your receiver. Otherwise, I imagine one could record direct and then use ReZound to approximate the curve shown on the page I linked above to get similar results. Gramofile sounds interesting but I hated their website immediately. Doesn't say anything about preamps or filters, anyway. As I've said, I am going to doing this soon, so I would certainly appreciate anything anyone has to say about the process. Oh, btw, I use Ardour for capturing audio, ReZound for post and k3B for burn. I came from the Cakewalk crowd, so I like to see stuff on screen. In color! ;> Erik Anderson wrote: >On 10/29/05, Kraig Jones <jkjones at tcq.net> wrote: > > >>I want to record and convert some old LP's to MP3 or ogg. I've found >>one way to do it -- turntable to sound card's line-in, using Audacity to >>record and save to .wav, .mp3, or .ogg. The only thing is, it seems to >>me that Audacity is more complex than necessary. I was just wondering >>if anyone has used any other methods? >> >> > >You have a few options here...you could use either arecord or ecasound >from the command line to record the wav and then encode to mp3 using >lame. Alternatively, there's an open-source project called >"gramofile" which was written specifically to help people do the >vinyl->mp3 conversion. I've never used it, but it might be of use for >you. > >-Erik > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >