[migao]

I went fully digital ages ago and gave away all LPs and cassettes without too much bothering to try to keep what's inside them - now my father is thinking of doing the same and asking advise how to transfer his LPs and C-cassettes to CDs.

I realized I have no idea! Is there any simple and cheap products that would be really helpful in this or better, is there some companies here in HK that would simply do it for you for a reasonable price, you bring the LPs and C-cassettes to them and they will rip them and put them to CDs?

[Oman Mercenary]

Been there, done that. [All by myself] ----and it takes days to achieve! Remember that for every hour of playback it'll take an hour (or more) to record it to "Viagra" [Hard] Disk..... and that's even before you start to process the captured signal to clean it up & remove hiss/cracks/pops and other assorted noises. And after all that, I've seldom bothered to listen to them again!

[discobay]

There are free pc utilities that will accept an analogue signal from your sound card input which will be connected to your cassette deck/turntable+amplifier output. It is true that you will want to trim your recordings and maybe clean them up if the hiss is annoying. Your finished audio cd will not however have artist and track info. without the cd coding that comes with retail cds. You could convert them to mp3 and add the info. yourself but then is it all worth it?

[honkkongjohn]

You could buy a stand alone CD Recorder....Tascam make good recorders....The downside (apart from the cost) is that you have to pause up the recorder after each track of an album, otherwise a whole LP side is regarded as one CD track.

So the way i do it is to only select tracks I really want....

As for removing hiss, why bother. Don't you want the authentic sound of vinyl?

[Pekkerhead]

if you aren't too bothered with quality you could always use an MP3 player that has encoding facilities. Just plug it into the phone socket and hit record. Then burn to CD.

probably the easiest, but definitely not best quality way to do it.