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Converting 45s to mp3s

The pickup in those is most likely ceramic. The sound quality is going to be mediocre at best. Also cheap turntables (record players) don't have a regulated speed drive so they often play too fast. Some as much as one hundred cents + pitch. It's very noticeable if you're a singer. 😉

There will be rumble and audible noise in the outputs on these.

Now if you have a stack of 45s in the attic that aren't in the best of shape anyway and you just want something to get them to a format that's handy then this is probably the best way to do it.

There are places that will do transfers the right way and even remove surface noise, etc. but it can get expensive if you have a lot of discs.
 
Honestly the best way would be to buy the songs in a digital format, you'll probably get better quality than doing it yourself and none of the frustration. If you've got a good record player and a receiver with a phono pre-amp and line level output (tape loop) you could in theory connect the line level out on the receiver to the line level input on your sound card and use something like the sound recorder included with windows to capture the audio as an uncompressed .wav file.
 
It looks like I just am going to download it. I thought something similar to a VHS to DVD converter would be possible for this conversion.
 
Only trouble is that it can difficult to find some of the b-sides digitally, at least from legal sources😉

But, from the sounds of it, the OP isn't dealing with that issue.
 
It's really very simple. All you need is a turntable with 45rpm setting, stereo with preamp or an external preamp, and a sound recording program.

Hook the turntable up to the preamp, preamp to the PC with a 3.5mm to RCA adapter, and record the sound with Audacity. I assume you probably have this stuff already.
 
mmntech said:
It's really very simple. All you need is a turntable with 45rpm setting, stereo with preamp or an external preamp, and a sound recording program.

Hook the turntable up to the preamp, preamp to the PC with a 3.5mm to RCA adapter, and record the sound with Audacity. I assume you probably have this stuff already.
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I thought there were like some turntables with USB interfaces. I also am pretty much going to get maybe 1 song from each of my leftover records (nothing on the B side).
 
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