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Best way to record vinyl to digital?

I hope that I'm not hijacking someone else's thread, but I asked a question over on the Digital Forum and did not receive a reply so I thought I would try here:

Can anyone provide a brief comparison of LP ripping software? Audacity and Reaper have both been mentioned, but not Pure Vinyl. Has anyone tried it?

I have been struggling with ripping my vinyl collection to digital files. I have a Mac Mini and an Apogee Duet I borrowed from the kid next door, and I downloaded the Pure Vinyl demo which is supposed to be fully functional. After messing with it for over a week I still can't get it to work, and the documentation they provide with the demo version stinks. So I am looking for a better way to do this and would appreciate any suggestions.
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tobias
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I don't use PV for recording although I use Pure Music for playback. My recording software is Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor and it is excellent.
les_creative_edge
174 posts
 
Apple's own Garage Band works very well and is pretty easy to get a grasp on. It's then easy to make and send files in many formats to other places on your Mac including burning CDR's and uploading to a portable player such as an iPod or other MP3 devices.

I have used each of these.

Garage Band
Audacity
Final Vinyl

Each work well enough once you get use to them. Audacity and Final Vinyl are FREE programmes and Garage Band comes with every Mac.
secretchimp99
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FWIW I demoed Wave Editor extensively about a year ago and really wanted to like it. The dithering and SRC are supposedly top-notch however I was getting drop-outs in my recordings. After a back and forth with support, I was told it was a known issue that would be corrected with the next version (1.5?). Something with the buffer size WE uses.

I haven't tried it since that time and hopefully it's been addressed.
tobias
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Good to have that info re Wave Editor. The software is now in version 1.5.5 and I have not seen a dropout problem so far.

I am very happy with WE's dithering and SRC. There are no digital nasties in Redbook versions made with WE from downloaded hi-res files.
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