Backup yer vinyl records
Posted by Boon Kiat on June 30, 2008
Here’s the latest in bit-perfect, lossless music encoding: vinyl-to-plastic audio backup.
Now, being a vinyl record nut, I was naturally excited but also aghast to find this backup-yer-vinyl-record tip in blogoshere. Excited because, well, it is a pretty cool notion. Aghast because I can just see all those out-of-print vinyl records being damaged by the gooey silicon stuff. And I am also not so sure about having my delicate record cartridge glide on the finished plastic replica.
Assuming it works, I can just imagine all the nasty crackles and pops from the replica. Anyone tried?
robert benson said
Why in the name of all that is holy would anyone even attempt this inane stunt? To “back up” my vinyl, I record them onto CD, which makes them ‘portable” (you can’t play your records in your car or at the beach) I saw something similar to this, and no I didn’t try it, why take the chance of ruining a perfect good vinyl record? I would be interested if anyone has tried this, and what results that they had. Seems a bit silly to me.
Regards,
Robert Benson
http://www.collectingvinylrecords.com
kjj said
hi boon kiat, VINYL!!!!! (eh, shows your age lah) but yes, i wished i had kept my vinyls from years back. (i mean, gee, didn’t know that donny and marie wld be back in fashion again!)
rgds – johju
Boon Kiat said
Hey Joh Ju. I wished you’ve alerted me before you threw away those LPs years ago, so that I can be their custodian
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