Coming towards a long drawn out programme of transferring all me old vinyl into MP3s

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    ... so I can hold it all in a massive cyber jukebox. It has taken ages and ages of painstaking and methodical downloading and very careful labelling, filing, sorting and tagging.</p>

    I'm coming towards the end now. Taken me over a year. I clicked on the index today and brought up the entire file list for an admiring look.</p>

    God I've got some ***** :)S)</p>
     
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    As that is one of the tasks ahead of me....

    any advice????!
     
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    RE: As that is one of the tasks ahead of me....

    It can be an enjoyable experience - and a frustrating one.</p>

    There's lots of advice I can offer now, and lots of lessons I learned far too late on the journey, so it's best to set out what you want at the beginning, eg. what level of info you require, cos it's no good changing your requirements half way through.</p>

    The main thing is of course correct &quot;tagging&quot;, or identification of tracks via properties. Otherwise, if you download them onto an MP3 player it will not identify them. I know it seems daft but you also need to adopt a common approach to everything as well - eg; Starting titles and names with a capital letter (if that's what you want of course). Some library systems for some reason will file the same artist into two different categories if you vary the case. Remembering to drop &quot;the&quot; from the front of bands like The Rolling Stones or from the front of song titles, therefore preventing 50% of your collection from being filed under the letter &quot;T&quot; etc etc. Oh, and if you file them on a PC in a file list, remember to include little things that identify the song in a search, like whether the artist is male, female, band, orchestra etc, and possibly the year. It helps tremendously in common searches. For example, if you specifically want to pull up everything you have by male solo artists from 1993..... Stuff like that.</p>
     
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    RE: As that is one of the tasks ahead of me....

    They do seem to be the sort of things I would think of part way through the process!!!
     
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    A much easier way..

    ...rather than spending hours and hours and hours doing it is to download as much as possible from &quot;next to nothing&quot; mp3 sites rather than having to sit through real time recording of crackling, hissing and humming. The entire Zep back catalogue in decent quality (up to 320kbps) from www.mp3fiesta.com sets you back about &pound;10. Google image search and wikipedia are good for artwork - I've found them much easier to use and more reliable than any of the specialist album artwork sites.</p>
     
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    But that deprives the LP/Single owner of all that nostalgia wallowing

    Taking the record out of the paper sleeve, wiping away the dust and fluff of decades. Carefully placing the needle without a trace of hand shake because that might scratch the vinyl. Listening to songs and tunes that you forgot you had while the recording process is done. It DOES take a heck of a long time, agreed, but there is some pleasure in it as well. One thing I didn't have the patience to do though was to record each LP track individually, thus getting single small files. I have recorded all mine as WHOLE LPs.
    Hmmm, might have to do it all again (chinny) Oh well.....
     
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