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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Dipping only slightly further offtopic, are they still pressing vinyl? |
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Sales of vinyl LPs have actually gone up for the past 6 years, selling |
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3.5 million new LPs last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan which is |
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the organization that tracks music sales/downloads in stores and |
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online. Meanwhile, sales of CDs have declined since their peak in |
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2001. |
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> I believe there are a number of tools for automatically splitting and |
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> transcoding audio input from a vinyl player. |
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When I digitize vinyl or cassettes, I record the whole thing to a |
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single WAV file in Audacity. My turntable and cassette deck are hooked |
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up to my home stereo system, and the output from that is fed into my |
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line on on my PC. I try to adjust the input level manually to get as |
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loud as possible with no clipping, basically. I will run normalize on |
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the whole WAV afterward to see how close I was and listen to the |
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before and after to choose which one sounds better. I then use |
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wavbreaker to split it up into separate tracks. The process works well |
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for me. |
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