Monster900
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Slightly against my better judgement, I have decided to have one last go at trying to digitise our relatively modest vinyl record collection. Previous attempts have resulted in mixed results and I have mostly been buying replacement CDs, second hand, to duplicate the LPs and then ripping those to a media server. However, some CDs really don't sound as good as the original vinyl.
This time around I have bought a Rega Fono Mini A2D Mk2 to couple up to my wife's Dual CS505-2 and I intend to use Audacity as the capture software running on a HP I7 laptop with SSD (which should help avoid drop outs). I have also bought a record washing kit (Knosti) to try to get the records in as good a condition as possible at reasonable cost.
As this process is really time consuming I want to give myself the best chance of success, so here I am looking for any tips to help me get it right. Any advice to avoid time wasting blunders will be much appreciated. I intend to export to FLAC file format and if anyone has any ideas how the album / track metadata can be easily imported rather than manually entered file by file that would also be a great help.
Thanks in advance.
M
This time around I have bought a Rega Fono Mini A2D Mk2 to couple up to my wife's Dual CS505-2 and I intend to use Audacity as the capture software running on a HP I7 laptop with SSD (which should help avoid drop outs). I have also bought a record washing kit (Knosti) to try to get the records in as good a condition as possible at reasonable cost.
As this process is really time consuming I want to give myself the best chance of success, so here I am looking for any tips to help me get it right. Any advice to avoid time wasting blunders will be much appreciated. I intend to export to FLAC file format and if anyone has any ideas how the album / track metadata can be easily imported rather than manually entered file by file that would also be a great help.
Thanks in advance.
M