Old LP's and records

[Ferdinand Lehnard]

Hi Jared and Steve

I don't believe that it will work, as far as I know a pre-amplifier has
to be used to get something out.

Also the Aldi one has an output for audio devices - I didn't tried yet.
I just used the supplied usb cable and connected straight into my laptop
(usb 2.0) opened up Audacity and - what a surprise - the whole stuff was
just working.

Greetings
Ferdinand

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Thomas <st3v3th0ma5 at gmail.com>
To: Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
Cc: Ferdinand Lehnard <ferdinand.lehnard at web.de>,
ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Old LP's and records
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:43:13 +0930

Jared,


will that work? I had to connect my very old B&O turntable to the hifi
via a pre-amp. I assumed I would also need a pre-amp to connect to my
laptop. Did try connecting thru the pre-amp and using LPripper, but
seemed not to be getting proper audio through.


Also, the B&O has a DIN connector. But I guess I could use an adaptor.


Of course, another way to get those old vinyl tracks is to rip them from
Youtube. ;)

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On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
wrote:

        
        
        
        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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