buzzlulu wrote:Ranking Glasses wrote:Takes forever!
EXACTLY!
Digitizing a vinyl collection takes forever, but it's the way to go, the only one.
I'm in the process of doing just that
I'm a beta tester for a wonderful machine (not trying to advertise it, just saying how I feel about it) called Sugarcube and it's hooked to the stereo and has a USB drive slot so one can capture the audio content. One can remove pops and cracks or not and their algorithms are quite awesome. For extreme cases, I use Izotope or Denoiser.
I run the record through the Sugarcube, then transfer the 192/24 FLAC files from the USB key to my computer, remove the blanks, slice the sides into songs, etc... on Garageband, export to iTunes in lossless AIFF format, and index the resulting files in iTunes, where I convert the AIFF into ALAC for my iphone and FLAC for my other non-Apple devices and archives.
It's a great way to spend time, and far more productive than idling on Facebook! Plus I'm slowly learning new skills for declicking and so forth if I have to use Izotope
For the most cherished items in my collection, I'm going to ask a professional engineer to clean them and restore them for me as they are much better than machines (in a few years, AI will probably take digitizing to a whole new level, but we're not there yet and there is such a small market that it wont attract the huge investments required to make AI better than human professionals)