On 03/07/14 01:46, michael norman wrote:
(BTW, there is a very simple but effective way of cleaning old vinyls. You coat them with wood working water soluble glue, spread it with a spatula, let it dry and then peel the glue off. All the dirt comes off with the glue.
If you want a clearer understanding of this, there is a YouTube video
I thought this was supposed to have gone OT, but the idea of cleaning vinyls (of which I have a lot, old and knew) with water soluble glue sounds horrific to me.
A specific reference would be helpful.
As already mentioned, there is a video (or rather several at least) on YouTube re this. Search on "cleaning vinyls" for example. I never tell "porkies" :-) .
I've got about a hundred old LP's. CD's are good. The sound is pure(er), but for us that are old as dirt, the sound from a good record player ............... there's just something special about it. I've got a Sony turntable that plugs into my computer so I can record old records and burn to CD. Great because I can listen to the music and not put more wear and tear on the records.
Since I'm on the subject whether the sound of cd's is either "good" or "pure(er) is debatable at best.
Well, not really debatable. The sound from CDs does not have the full frequency range produced by vinyls. Don't take my word, check for yourself.
Another canard is that records wear out by being played, play them on a properly set up turntable and it will not happen.
Sounds about right :-) .
But as I said OT for this list.
Not all all. We are talking about the technicalities available in openSUSE on how to best record vinyl records and what has to be done to make those vinyls to be in the best condition in order to do so: clean the vinyls using wood working glue, then use Audacity to record (and edit) the contents of the vinyls so recorded for burning to CDs. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.2-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org