Once the CD has been burned, I mount it so that Music sees it and tries to match it up to a commercial CD product often it will find an appropriate match, and then I just direct Music to rip the CD to MP3 format within Music. I am careful to use the highest quality discs that I can lay my hands on, and run the burning program at minimum speed (usually 4X) with good quality Taiyo Yuden or JVC discs (now superseded by CMC.) I have had good luck with CDs still being readable after 15 years. Then burn the whole data set to a CD using a CD burner program. Photograph the album cover, front and back, along with any enclosed liner notes. Adjust the levels of the tracks, and split the tracks out to individual files in 16-bit AIFF format back in Amadeus Pro again. Send the resulting AIFF file through a (now obsolete) program called ClickRepair to clean up the clicks and pops of the vinyl record, restoring it to near-CD audio quality. The stereo digital stream is captured by Amadeus Pro, a sound editing program also available from the Mac App Store. My workflow for the project goes something like this: play an LP while recording it through a Scarlett 24 bit stereo A/D converter. It also turns out that when you create a CD that closely replicates the order and timing of the original LP it will often be recognized by Apple Music (neé iTunes) as a commercially produced CD, and Music will automatically download the metadata like the performer, song title, and album from Gracenote, saving a lot of manual data entry. This is possible with programs like Toast, which you can use to create what are called “Enhanced Audio” CDs that have separate sub-volumes for the musical tracks and digital data. I could easily rip the LPs to digital files, and call that sufficient, but I’m kind of old-school and anachronistic: I like to make CDs that include not only the audio files but also the liner notes and the artwork. This is why I need a Real Desktop Computer, with a CD/DVD burner drive. ![]() I have an on-going project of transferring content from those spinning vinyl disks to digital formats so that I can play them on the radio program that I host biweekly at the local radio station, KBOO-FM Portland. I haven’t counted them lately, but there are about 35 linear feet of LPs stacked tightly in four bookcases. ![]() I have a lot of 33 1/3 LP records, nearly all of them from the folk music genre. And I still use a Real Desktop Computer, not even a cool Apple Silicon laptop: as detailed in an earlier submission, “I’m Still Using a 2010 Mac Pro” as a daily driver, for reasons that will soon be revealed. I don’t do social media, other than to sign into Discord on Sunday nights to check in with the friendly and enthusiastic NosillaCastAways. I have an iPhone, but it is an old-ish iPhone XR (ten-R?) and I don’t even use half of my 3GB data allotment. I write paper checks to pay my utility bills. ![]() My adult children think I’m an anachronism.
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