Occasionally I will get guilty feelings about ignoring my record album collection, a collection crafted over decades at obscure record stores around the Northeast during lunch breaks, on vacations, or filling lazy Saturday afternoons before kids. Not that there's anything you've never heard of, but it's not half-bad. Some are easily replacible, some, like old jazz albums from Integrity 'N Music's cutout bins, are not. And some are just cool to have in your collection, but not that cool to hear often. John Prine Live (2 album set), Andy Pratt Shiver in the Night, The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie, a Mort Fega-produced Bobbi Rogers, Bette Midler's Divine Miss M, The Sons of Champlin....There has been for years technology to convert albums to a digital format, but every time I explored the possibilities, I came away, in my technically-challenged universe, overwhelmed. But now things are getting closer. A recent Reuters article, Vinyl Vaults into Digital Age, gives examples of equipment/software that will do the trick at reasonable levels of expertise and cost.
For example, "...INport, designed by Xitel, a company based in Canberra, Australia... comprises a cable and a converter box the size of a credit card that connects a computer to a stereo. It also includes computer software to adjust sound levels and cut album sides into tracks once they are transferred."
Or, maybe I'll wait a little while before embarking on such a project...
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