Rip your own
Subtitle: digitizing your records and tapes
By: Casey Kim
Publisher: Course Technology
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781598635836
Subjects: Music; Computer sound processing; Data processing
Other titles: Digitizing your records and tapes
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1:  Digital Lifestyle; title: What exactly is a digital lifestyle?; title: So how do I fit in to all of this?; title: Chapter 2:  Choose Wisely:  An Overview Of Digital Music Players; title: Device:  storage types; title: Flash-based; title: Hard drive-based; title: External media-based; title: Device roundup; title: Apple Inc; title: Creative labs; title: Microsoft; title: SanDisk; title: Sony; title: Chapter 3:  Imported Goods:  A Guide To Digitally Importing And Transferring Music Onto Your Computer; title: Digital formats; title: Sound quality; title: Original formats; title: Destination formats; title: Software for importing music; title: Rippers and media players; title: Recording software; title: Chapter 4:  From Analog To Digital (And Everything In Between); title: Digital audio interfaces; title: Connections; title: Internal versus external audio devices; title: Internal soundcards; title: External soundcards; title: Other external devices; title: Signal flow; title: Chapter 5:  Good, The Bad, And The Audibly Ugly; title: What exactly is audio restoration?; title: To restore or not to restore yeah, it's a question; title: Different types of noise; title: Getting acquainted wit the editing environment; title: How to read a waveform; title: Basic audio restoration techniques; title: Initial preparation; title: Analysis; title: Noise reduction; title: Impulse artifact reduction; title: Software tools for audio restoration; title: Plug-Ins; title: Chapter 6:  Organized Chaos:  Organizing Your Digital Music Library; title: Hard drives:  the external question?; title: Hard drive specifications; title: Desktop or portable?; title: Hard drive preparations; title: Options and preferences; title: Word on file organization; title: Filenames and nomenclatures; title: What to do with your old LPs, CDs, and cassette tapes; title: Chapter 7:  Putting The Pieces Together; title: Word on music management software; title: Options and preferences (Part 2); title: Library location; title: File format; title: Order of operations; title: What to expect; title: Extra, extra! Read all about it!:  keeping current; title: Box is just a box until you open it and there's stuff inside; title: First date; title: Second base; title: Sharing may be nice, but protected file aren't; title: Sometimes you have to disconnect to reconnect; title: Do this, don't do that:  best practices for successful audio adventures; title: Dos; title: don'ts; title: Index.