Bournemouth — Feb 21st 2017

A hardy 7 members braved February for a dose of nostalgic recycling. John Ansell presented the means of moving your vinyl records into iTunes so that you can listen to them again without all that cleaning, turning over halfway through and unwanted clicks and pops.

John first played some comparative samples, showing how a ripped vinyl record can sound as good as a first-generation CD version and, to some ears, sound better than a remastered CD version too. He then described the elements of a ripping system where the simplest solution is a traditional HiFi amplifier hosting the record deck and connected to a Mac with a sound-in connector.

Audacity was used to record the record, using a high-quality setting. This was trimmed to remove start and end noises before a manual and fiddly process to remove any clicks or pops; John suggested that a record in poor condition was better replaced with a CD version but that the odd defect was easily removed.

Finally, the digital version had its volume level normalised and was divided into tracks before being resaved at CD quality for import to iTunes. Once in iTunes, the files<apostrophe> metadata (titles and artists etc) could be added and the job is complete.

After the break, Euan Williams eulogised Sugru for repairs (it is on Google) and Tony asked if anyone used Apple<apostrophe>s versions facility (available in many apps).

Apologies for the punctuation, system having a paddy.

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