Old LP's and records

[Jared Norris]

On 24 April 2010 18:20, Ferdinand Lehnard <ferdinand.lehnard at web.de> wrote:

>  Hi mates,
>
> I just would like to inform you that ALDI (NSW) had last week a USB
> turntable (record player) in their shops which is usable to copy your old
> records onto CD. The most surprising stuff was that the software package
> delivered was Audacity. Seeing this I thought, that could be something for
> my UBUNTU machine and just bought it even it was no mentioning of LINUX on
> the package.
>
> Today I tried it and worked out of the box, I was not even forced to load
> the Installation CD. All you need is AUDACITY. I am using still UBUNTU 8.04
> just for your info.
>
> Greetings
> Ferdinand
>
>
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Ferdinand,

How did you find the device itself? My parents recently bought a device
similar to that from the catchoftheday (I realise you can get high quality
ones for hundreds of dollars, this one was 60 - 80 ish from memory).
Unfortunately the device skipped across the records so badly they threw it
out after ruining one of their records. Upon seeing it had installed
audacity I advised them it would be cheaper to purchase an RCA to 3.5mm
Stereo lead and just play it using the high quality record player they
already own using the lead to the line in on their onboard sound card. They
haven't had a chance to try this yet but I was curious to see what your
experience was like.

Regards,

Jared Norris
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