All the music I have is newly bought shrink-wrapped CDs. I get two or three a week, I guess. I joined this forum (a year ago tomorrow!) hoping to surreptitiously soak up some file/streaming/modern-day capabilities, but it hasn't worked at all. I guess I have a mental block. I see people's screenshots of their library databases and think, ugh. Just can't do it.
Me too! When it became available on the islands that I stayed on, I tried downloading some purchase digital for use on a ship while I was a sea from 3 weeks to 3 months at a time from 2001-2018. played back with JRiver while I was on a ship at sea. The idea seemed great, the execution, not so much. Having to update JRiver constantly & relearn was more than I want to do now that I am shore based. I just want to learn how to and get what I need to get my several hundred (of each LP's, CD's, DVD's [also some Blu Ray & UHD]) stored on my computer in CD's, DVD, Blu Ray & FLAC formats so if they get scratched not likely when I handle them but it is not always me, I even have a separate TT (DUAL 1229) from my Technics SL-M3 (for others in my household to use for their LP's) so that I can burn a new copy. I want to copy their LP collection too. Currently I can do this with a
Sony RCD-W500C
24-bit Converters
5-CD Changer and CD Recorder
Type: Dual Well Programmable Integrated 5-CD CD-R/CD-RW Recorder/Changer
Compatible Discs: Red Book CD, CD-R, CD-RW and MP3 Discs
(Note: This unit records to Audio CDR's and CDRW's only)
Supported Bit/Sample Rates16-bit/44.1kHzA/D Converter: 24-bit D to A Converters: 24-bit Sample Rate Conversion
Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz
Dynamic Range>95 dB
Signal-to-Noise Ratio>98 dB
Input Connectors (Analog) 2 x RCA Phono, Unbalanced
Nominal Input Level Unbalanced: 47 kOhms/125 - 330 mV RMS
Output Connectors 2 x RCA Phono, Unbalanced
Nominal Output Level 2.0 V RMS/50 kOhms
Input Connectors (Digital)1 x Toslink Optical
Output Connectors (Digital)1 x Toslink Optical
Headphone Connector1/4" TRS phone with Volume Control Knob
Digital Fade In/Outs; Remote Control
RAM Track Incrementing
Indexing & Finalize Features
So I am good there.
I have an oppo 205 UDP and an ART USB Phono Plus – Project Series
But I am computer software illiterate (but good with hardware, I designed & built the above computer myself)
I just need to learn how to do FLAC to the Windows 10 Pro 64-bit; Intel Core i7 4790K, 32 GB DDR3 @ 799 MHZ, 2 TB Samsung SSD 850 EVO (SATA), NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (MSI) computer and what I need to in order to do it. Then I can get started with this major project.
Please let me know if there is something else I need for this project (other than a way to clean the records) and how I should hook these things up.
Thank you in advance. EJ3