Recording vinyl to hard drive Does anyone know of a free, reliable program for recording vinyl on to hard drive? All the ones I have tried are creating a slight skipping at points. I have defragmented my hard drive and the records aren't skipping during playback. The decks and mixer are only 2 weeks old so shouldn't be problems there anyhow!
Thanks for your reply. However, I have been able to eliminate the things you suggested. I should have given more information in my original post but I was off to bed at the time The PC I have is: P4 1.6Ghz (not celeron) 392 MB of 133 Mhz Ram Soundblaster Audigy 64 IDE 2 hard drives: A 17Gb with about 2 Gb free space (With Windows XP Pro) A 120Gb 7400 RPM with about 45Gb free space (this is the one I am recording to and was defragmented the day before I tried to record) All drivers are correctly installed. The computer is not on a network, but it has been before. We used to run a cable modem through mine, then out through a network card to my friends. We both hammered downloading 24/7 on a 1 MB connection and it would take about 3 days of this to make it play music or film slower. I am not having any problem whatsoever with playback of MP3. I am trying to record to CD qulity Wav format so my friend can record a mix. But I have been trying to rip individual tracks before he comes over so I know it works or it will be a time waste... I did try programs from download.net so maybe this is where the problems arise. I was too stupid to figure that nothing free, is really free from everything I will try Soundforge and report back... I know what you mean about hard drives, they are volatile. Mine honestly is working fine as far as everything else is concerned though. I used to work building PC's and testing faulty stock a few years back. It's amazing some of the stuff people send back on faulty hard drives Cheers
i have a 800mhz Athlon thunderbird and 126megs of ram and it works fine on mine, i use XP and i have a sound blaster live value sound card, i use the recorder prog i got with the sound card which saves it as .wav's then i convert it to MP3, guess i must be a lucky or something
ive got a thunderbird athlon 1.2 clocked to 1.3gig with its onboard via sound i use audiograbber with the extra LAME codec things installed, ive also got a OGG encoder installed which means i can genraly save it at any rate i need the latest mix i did was encoded @ 320kbs in mp3 format and is about 160mb in size (from memory)
