tech help

[Gilly]

You probably don't need to buy anything. Exact Audio Copy should do the job. I've never used it for that, but EAC is a great program and should work.

[Sarah]

Peachy.  Thanks, Gilly.

[dave from knoxville]

You probably don't need to buy anything. Exact Audio Copy should do the job. I've never used it for that, but EAC is a great program and should work.

I am dumb, and my smarter technology oriented son is not speaking to me, but I don't understand how that software helps with non-CDs. Got a thumbnail explanation?

[Bryan]

I use Audacity for ripping vinyl. It's also free, and very easy to use.

[yesno]

I usually scan a record optically, and then I use a program that reads the grooves off the image.

Or: you could just find some digital packrat online who has already done a needledrop of everything you could imagine.

[Bryan]

Or: you could just find some digital packrat online who has already done a needledrop of everything you could imagine.

This is good advice, unless you particularly enjoy geeking out with this kind of thing.

[Sarah]

I doubt if anyone has already made a copy of a radio show I did back in 1992.

[fonpr]

I doubt if anyone has already made a copy of a radio show I did back in 1992.

Send me the tape. 

I'll take care of it, if you trust the USPS.

Parts might end up on my podcast.

[cavorting with nudists]

Sarah, about that buzzing speaker: It probably isn't the speaker's problem.  First, see that the cable to that speaker is isolated from any other nearby power cables.  Other than that it's probably a grounding problem.  Google "speaker hum" and you'll find a lot of instructions on how to deal with it, but if you find them a bit technical, it might be best to ask around among your electronic geek friends.

[Sarah]

I have only virtual geek electronic friends.

I doubt if anyone has already made a copy of a radio show I did back in 1992.

Send me the tape. 

I'll take care of it, if you trust the USPS.

Parts might end up on my podcast.

I may take you up on that offer, S.

You probably don't need to buy anything. Exact Audio Copy should do the job. I've never used it for that, but EAC is a great program and should work.

I am dumb, and my smarter technology oriented son is not speaking to me, but I don't understand how that software helps with non-CDs. Got a thumbnail explanation?

I'm with Peaches on this one, Gilly.  I just installed EAC, and it seems to be interested only in CDs.

I use Audacity for ripping vinyl. It's also free, and very easy to use.

I'll check it out.  I'm in Luddite mode this morning, though, so I feel like I'm going end up with fifty programs of this kind on my machine and probably still end up sending the three tapes that make up the show to Fredericks.

[dave from knoxville]

Or: you could just find some digital packrat online who has already done a needledrop of everything you could imagine.

This is good advice, unless you particularly enjoy geeking out with this kind of thing.

Pointers?

[fonpr]

Or: you could just find some digital packrat online who has already done a needledrop of everything you could imagine.

This is good advice, unless you particularly enjoy geeking out with this kind of thing.

Pointers?

http://sophisticatedsquaw.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=12

[cavorting with nudists]

Captain Crawl is a music-site search engine that will point you to a whole lot of music downloads, mostly illegal.  But personally, I don't feel that bad about downloading a digitized version of something I've already paid for in LP form, and I've found a lot of things through it that I could cross off my gotta-get-around-to-digitizing-that-someday list.

[yesno]

honestly, the best site I know is an annoying torrent site with impossible ratio demands.  so I don't bother much. I'd bet than almost everything released on a major label since the 1960s, but hasn't been released on CD, has been needledropped.  I have no evidence for this.

[Sarah]

Maybe I'll just go back to humming.  And occasionally whistling.