I have a couple of vinyl records from the 1960 `s Of the INDY 500.
Does anyone know of a place that can transfer them to C D`s ???
They are narrated by Sid Collins. The only true VOICE OF THE 500..

I have a Crosley radio look alike.

I can convert LPs and Cassettes to CD with it.

It also has AM/FM radio.

I paid $299 for it, but if you have a lot of LPs it is worth the money.I have slowly been converting my old LPs to CDs.

Dyno, I was thinking about doing that. How is the quality of the sound, when you convert from Album to cd. Do you hear alot of scratching, I guess it would depend on the quality of your LP...

I did all of my old LP's, CD's, and 8 tracks last winter. There is a very good software program called SPIN IT AGAIN. About $35.00 and worth every bit of it. It will clean up some of noise, automatically set the recording level, and more. There may be some free "shareware" out there that would do the same.

I know this post was about transferring records to CD's, but what I usually do is transfer to DVD. You just plug the sound jacks of the record player into the sound inputs of the DVD recorder and press record.

If it was the Indy 500, I don't think the individual tracks afforded by a CD sound track are necessary. You probably just want to listen to the whole race uninterrupted. The DVD recorder will do that for you.

For the car you could use any small DVD player and use an FM modulator to transmit the signal to any FM radio.

If you wanted to get rid of the scratches you could use any old DBX noise reduction system of the 70's. I'm sure you could pick up one of these units very cheaply. Most of my records were in pretty good condtion, so I didn't hear any scratches.

Sincerely,

Larry Otani and good luck. Googe what you are looking for and I'm sure you will find a place, for cheap that can transfer your records.

There is a free program called Audacity out there that I've used a lot over the years to convert older formatted media to a CD. It will download pretty fast and is relatively easy to operate. You hook the turntable/cassette player/ 8 track to your computer tower with RCA cables and it will give you several options as to what type of file you want to use. Set up a folder on your hard drive to send the files to and when you have captured all the content you want you send the folder to your cd/dvd drive and burn it onto a blank cd. I got this information from Kim Komando's website in the tips section. You may be able to run a search of her website and bring it up since it was 2 or 3 years ago I saw it there. I would suggest using a "music" cd. I have had the best luck with those, what the difference is between the standard cd's and the "music" cd's I don't know. Also, use the slowest burning option that your cd drive will allow. You burn too fast and the quality seems to diminish a bit. It is kinda neat once you get started and get comfortable with the deal. You can get rather creative.

Sorry so long winded, hope this and other posts gets you started and good luck.

If you have a cd burner on your computer,

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Not to change the post, but if you didn't want to record to CD but wanted to record to a Mini Flash card the following very, very small video camera will do it for 29.00 dollars. It is also a very good incar camera. I have used it many times with great results. This camera has a mini audio/sound/video jack that you could get a coupling cord to plug your turntable plugs into this recorder and record the sound, listen to it and even record videos to this tiny camcorder directly and then listen to the sound recording only, video or anything you video'd. You just change the very small cards. This unit will use a 1/2 gig card. More than enough to do almost everything you wanted. The mini flash card will record easily up 10 hours of sound with no problems at all.

It's cheap and does anything you really wanted to do for pennies. I own personally about 7 of these cameras and use them mainly for incar shots. You would be amazed at the quality for such a very small video camera.

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Sincerely,

Larry Otani