create audio file from LP record

Using Roxio 5 easy CD creator and WindowsXP. Question: How does one put the sound from the LP record player onto the hard drive to make a file in the first place? My HP instruction book says to go to: START, Accessories, Entertainment, Media Rack (which WindowsXP doesn't seem to have). Windows XP has Real Player, Sound Recorder (for up to 60 seconds) and Windows Media Player..... I can't locate how to record by "line in" (yes, have the "line in" box checked in "recording control "), can do so only from CDs or existing files like from the Internet...... Going in circles with Roxio also --how to create the LP WAV file in the first place?

*hard drive 60 gb newly installed
*CD burner newly installed
*256 RAM
*have split RCA jack from LP player's speaker "line out" to one "line in" on back of computer

Ideas?

Thanks,
LinedanceB

 

Try the HELP or TUTORIAL files of Roxio 5. In Easy 4, which has a different user interface, I use Spin Doctor if that helps.

 

You could use Windows Recorder to create the wave file from the line-in. The normal time maximum default for a recording session using Recorder is 60 seconds but you can alter that easily.

If you need further, post back for details.

 

Yes, further. How can one alter (extend) the 60 second limit on Windows Sound Recorder?

Might you also know (and share) how to open a file "Spin Doctor.jws" ?

 

Take a look at this earlier thread for guidance on creating a longer session in Sound Recorder. http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=20813#post20813

As for Spin Doctor, I don't have that software and have nothing to offer except point you to Adaptec possibly. They were taken over by Roxio and they have extremely poor customer support.

Good luck.

 

LinedanceB

To record files to your hard drive from external device on Roxio Easy CD 5:

Open the Top Button (Make Music CD) > Soundstream >

In the top left coner of Soundstream you'll see a little icon (show menu), double left click it.

Select from the drop down menu >Show Spin Doctor

In Spin Doctor, select "Audio PCI WAV IN" as source

Hit red Record button--A new menu will appear

a) Give a name to the file...suggest that you give first a numeric name, as when you go through the tracks they'll eventually be listed alphabetically, such as 01 Song Name, 02 Second Song Name.

b) Record to FILE (new menu will appear) Select Folder

c) Save as type...I suggest you save them as MP3s or you will have some hugemongous files. You're recording analog anyway.

d)Click on Start Recording


Note that splitting tracks from albums is not an exact science. You may be forced to split the tracks manually. It means recording each track separately.

 

Also, I have a component stereo, I use the tape out from my amplifer to send the signal to my sound card.

 

RayH, we can only wonder why Roxio couldn't explain it so well. I think they don't hire the smartest people and what you get is someone who is trying to make your problem fit the script they have been taught.

It will be interesting to see if LinedanceB can pull it off using your instructions. I was a little concerned that the file he would be creating using the work around with Windows Sound Recorder would be pretty "hugemongous" as you so eloquently put it.

 

The user interface for Roxio 5 is bunk. It's a bit splashy. But as dull as Easy 4 is, it's fairly intuitive.

As for recording LPs to the hard drive, unless the albums are completely rare, I'd scrounge around Kazaa Lite or WinMx first! I'm sitting with a stack of LPs beside me. But I just use them to get titles/artists and go up on the internet with my 56K dialup connection and download.

I do have some obscure, out of print stuff. Those, scratches and all, I'll put on CD.

 

I can dig it. Let someone deliver up the clean copy and forget those old frisbees you have.

Stick around. Once they get all the copyright issues ironed out, you'll be able to get nearly anything you want right off the Internet.

 

I just lost an involved message reply by trying to make a correction of the preview....

Thank you. Thank you both. I appreciate the thorough steps.

I've printed and tried to follow how to use Spin Doctor. One variance: the only choice of source was "Conexant Cable" -- is that a problem? It all seemed to go well but after copying 12 MP3 files to a folder, selecting them and burning them to disk and finalizing it, when played on a "boom box" CD player there was nothing audible.

When CDs are copied and burned from a whole CD they are audible on the "boom Box" CD player.

BTW, we have not had sound on this computer itself since installing the new hard drive, CD burner and Windows XP -- cannot play a CD on it, have no sounds from Windows or the e-mail program....

I'm assuming that someday we will have sound. WinMX 3.1 has been downloaded. Now what?

 

You are not getting the AUDIO WAV IN selection because you have no audio drivers installed. You have to install your sound card drivers.

If you have WinMx installed. Just try and find the songs you would want to rip from LP. If you find a selection you want, right click on it and select DOWNLOAD.

I got into P2P because I couldn't find "Tim Hardin 4" on CD. It's not available. It sometimes takes a while, but I've found all kinds of music that's not in print.

 

MP3s are unplayable on a 'boom box'. They must be converted to .wav files before being burned onto a CD. Many programs can to this including WinAmp.

Hex92

 

Most newer CD burning programs will automatically convert mp3 to .cda (the "standard" CD audio format) in one step. No need for an mp3 to wav converter.

 

My HP original OS sound card is OEM version AMC97 codec with 16 bit sound according to HP help. They suggest rescue disking the hard drive back to Windows98..... I prefer to not do this. Certainly WindowsXP is keepable? XP drivers are already in place for two printers, the digital camera (I think) but not the scanner.

How does one know which WindowsXP sound card driver to download and install for what is on the computer? Have been checking DrDriver.com but they are listed by manufacturer.....

BTW: the disk I recorded from LP MP3 hard drive files also would not play on an external DVD player, suggesting that there indeed was nothing ever recorded to hard drive in the first place?

I have downloaded but not yet located and installed WinMX. Planning to search for it and do what is necessary to install it

So: please help with knowing which sound card driver to download and source of where to download it from.

Tomorrow I will be out of state.

 

additionally, the MP3 files on the computer's hard drive that were "recorded" from LPs say they have 3.31 mb of "something" in them. Would it say this if it is silence? If it's static?

Have heard that Nero automatically can convert WAV files to CD in one step. Were you saying that Roxio also can do that? Or that if they already are MP3 files that they are ready to go onto the CD with Roxio?

Have been enjoying downloading, I hope, MP3 files from WinMx. Lots of potential there!

Again, how to know which WindowsXP sound card driver to download (see previous post)?

Thanks,
LinedanceB