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Chances are your favorite music already digitalized in YT, you could listen direct there for free.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8t0VxZXEM
The audio portion of the majority of YouTube videos will likely be worse sounding than what you're hearing with Internet radio streams.(If you do listen to a YouTube video, click the gear in the control bar and select the highest video resolution possible. Many videos will have a max resolution of 240p, 360p or 480p, but you will find some that have a maximum of 720p or 1080p, although the auto feature has defaulted to something lower. As the video resolution increases, the audio often increases in quality as well.)If you do decide to try digitizing LPs, most of the super low-cost USB recording interfaces are limited to 16-bit/48kHz. Although you may be able to get ultimately better results with a 24/96 interface, a digitized 16/48 uncompressed file can still exceed the sound quality of compressed mp3 or aac radio streams.I'm not familiar with this American Audio interface, but I have used the Behringer U-Phono UFO-202 which also sells for ~ $30. Both have built-in MM phono preamps, so you can plug your turntable in direct, eliminating extra preamp circuitry and cables in the recording chain.There is (paid) software that can automatically separate cuts into tracks by detecting space between songs, but as with other software like voice dictation or optical character recognition, the results are accurate at best 80% to 90% of the time and will still require some manual intervention and correction (for example, songs that have pauses may be detected as end of cut).I used the open source (free) software Audacity, which includes some phono related features like noise/pop reduction. There's a lot going on in Audacity and it can seem a bit complicated and overwhelming with all the available functions and tools, but when you isolate just the ones that you'll actually need for this task, it's not so daunting (manually trimming lead-in and lead-out times, applying noise reduction, if needed, entering metadata tags, etc.).There are plenty of tutorials and videos available, and once you've gone through the procedure a few times, it's not very difficult, albeit a little time consuming.Steve
You likely have a much better phono stage then anything you would get with a usb interface.Take the output from your phono stage, and connect to a ADC (analog to digital converter).Behringer and others make ADC's with a USB interface for a PC, guess they call them audio interfaces.http://www.music-group.com/Categories/Behringer/Computer-Audio/Audio-Interfaces/UCA202/p/P0484It should come with software, or use Audacity or some other free program as suggested.Randy
You likely have a much better phono stage then anything you would get with a usb interface.
The Behringer U-Phono UFO-202 that you mentionned above is what I wanted to buy, but after reading dozens of reviews from owner, it did not look like something easy to set up. It seems that there are no CD program(s) included with the unit and I want something like Plug and Play !
You would think so, particular with a $30 interface, but it depends on the phono stage. In my case I was comparing it to the phono stages built into a $500 Yamaha integrated amplifier and an $800 Denon receiver and I preferred the results going direct into the interface's phono stage.If the phono stage in the system is better, then that may be the way to go. I would still experiment and try it both ways and compare the result.The Behringer is Plug and Play, no special driver or setup software is required. There are certainly better interfaces with ADC to be found than the cheap Behringer, but the next step up would probably be in the several hundred dollar range.Steve
I looked at Guy's equipment, didn't see a phono stage listed, and it is true I wouldn't think a $30 interface would have much of a phono stage.There may be some ebay options, I had a maudio transit at some point, it was decent. Been obsolete for awhile.Randy
Hihere is a good video on how to preserve LPshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeOSQ916w9UGuy13, hope you like it,simple is analog my friend.
