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An edition of Rip your own (2011)

Rip your own

digitizing your records and tapes

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Book Description: If you're like many music lovers, you still have a lot of your music collection on old records and tape cassettes. You probably want to be able to listen to a lot of that music on your iPod, but re-purchasing all of it in digital form would cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. Have no fear, this book provides an easy-to-read, non-technical guide to digitizing all of those records on the cheap. You'll get an overview of the tools available to help you with the task and how to find them. From there, you'll get a gentle introduction to the world of digital audio that focuses on the task at hand with no unnecessary tech-speak. You'll also learn how to use the software that can digitize that music into your computer, including how to clean up tape hiss, hum, pops, and clicks from the material. You'll even get tips on how to organize your MP3s and which MP3 players are the best buy. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to transfer all of your old records and tapes to MP3s you can listen to on the go, remastered some of your scratched records and worn-out tapes, and learned a little bit of pro audio to boot. So what are you waiting for? Your new digital music library awaits you.

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Course Technology
Language
English
Pages
166

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Digital Lifestyle
What exactly is a digital lifestyle?
So how do I fit in to all of this?
Chapter 2: Choose Wisely: An Overview Of Digital Music Players
Device: storage types
Flash-based
Hard drive-based
External media-based
Device roundup
Apple Inc
Creative labs
Microsoft
SanDisk
Sony
Chapter 3: Imported Goods: A Guide To Digitally Importing And Transferring Music Onto Your Computer
Digital formats
Sound quality
Original formats
Destination formats
Software for importing music
Rippers and media players
Recording software
Chapter 4: From Analog To Digital (And Everything In Between)
Digital audio interfaces
Connections
Internal versus external audio devices
Internal soundcards
External soundcards
Other external devices
Signal flow
Chapter 5: Good, The Bad, And The Audibly Ugly
What exactly is audio restoration?
To restore or not to restore yeah, it's a question
Different types of noise
Getting acquainted wit the editing environment
How to read a waveform
Basic audio restoration techniques
Initial preparation
Analysis
Noise reduction
Impulse artifact reduction
Software tools for audio restoration
Plug-Ins
Chapter 6: Organized Chaos: Organizing Your Digital Music Library
Hard drives: the external question?
Hard drive specifications
Desktop or portable?
Hard drive preparations
Options and preferences
Word on file organization
Filenames and nomenclatures
What to do with your old LPs, CDs, and cassette tapes
Chapter 7: Putting The Pieces Together
Word on music management software
Options and preferences (Part 2)
Library location
File format
Order of operations
What to expect
Extra, extra! Read all about it!: keeping current
Box is just a box until you open it and there's stuff inside
First date
Second base
Sharing may be nice, but protected file aren't
Sometimes you have to disconnect to reconnect
Do this, don't do that: best practices for successful audio adventures
Dos
don'ts
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Boston, MA
Other Titles
Digitizing your records and tapes

Classifications

Library of Congress
MT723 .K56 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 166 p. :
Number of pages
166

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25015887M
Internet Archive
ripyourowndigiti0000kimc
ISBN 10
1598635832
ISBN 13
9781598635836
LCCN
2008929221
OCLC/WorldCat
460255438, 702369147

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