One can use the approach I did with my CDs: start with the LPs you like the most. Then as you find time, you can digitize the rest. I used to use my forum time to rip my CDs .
Prioritize them as:
#1: Must Haves
#2: Nice to Haves
#3: Why Do I Have This?
And then schedule recordings accordingly.
TGD
Maybe there is money for someone to get into the high quality LP digitizing business !!!
The modern dematerialized digital music collection is a marvel—weightless, information-rich, strongly interconnected. Mine has nearly 1,000 full-length titles, more than 10,000 individual songs/tracks, over 750 GB of uncompressed audio, all automatically indexed and available to me with constant-time access. It is both the present and the future of playing music.
Still, people like vinyl. (I count myself among their number. Roughly 30% of my library titles were originally acquired on vinyl.)
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Why not digitize all your Lps?
--vinyl still sounds better than the best digital copy of it.
--vinyl does not wear out in a real world sense (in a lifetime of use anyway). it may get marginally noiser.
--it's fun spinning vinyl
--the state of the art of vinyl playback is still improving at a significant pace. to keep up you'd need to re-digitize your vinyl every few years.
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-- because the digital people are still arguing what is the best digital format (inspired by a Jack post in the Nice Review of DSD by Andreas Koch thread .
There is no "best". It's what suits the music, the personal taste and the wallet! Just like any piece of equipment.
Bruce,
do you really feel that way?
are you saying specific digital formats are ranked differently with different types/styles of music?
or that different digital formats are ranked differently based on the source format? (live, tape, PCM of various resolutions, dsd)
or it's more a personal preference based on one's reference? or taste? as in growing up with i-pod pcm as the reference.
i just don't see the confusion on the best current digital format. it's 2xdsd clearly if one wants the closest to the source. i'm trying to understand where that might not be true and why? other than the customer is always right. hey, you are running a business after all. i don't have that problem.:b
Good question Mike...
It's like this... these digital formats are more a personal preference and what the client/consumer can afford. My personal preference it to always use DSD128fs. Some of my clients absolutely hate the way DSD sounds. A lot of people (studios and audiophiles) don't want to go through the added extra expense of having to support DSD as well as PCM. To them... PCM is "good enough". No Mike, we don't have that problem, but with so many cutbacks and the economy, DSD is a luxury to most people.