Back-tracking
Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday September 11, 1999
IF you're ancient enough to own a box full of vinyl albums, there's now an alternative to turning them into tacky wall clocks or plant stands.
Play them again, and again - on CD.
If you've got a recordable CD drive in your PC or Mac, Adaptec's Easy CD Creator Deluxe version 4.0 ($130) can bring those memories flooding back. Dust off your turntable, hook it up to the PC's soundcard and drop a blank CD (average cost $3) into your computer's CD-recording drive. The cutely named Spin Doctor software does the rest, including filtering out background hissing and annoying clicks. When you're done, fire up the Jewel Case Creator to design and print customised labels for the CD case and disc.
Not that you're limited to resurrecting ancient tunes locked into vinyl. Jump online and grab some MP3 digital tracks, or transform your CD collection into an MP3 mega-music mix (software for this is not included, but plenty of CD-to-MP3 converters can be found on the Net). Easy CD Creator also taps into the Web's CDDB database and pulls the artist and album name, song titles, track numbers and even playing times into the recording, to be displayed on your MP3 player.
There's a one-touch CD Copier, software that can help edit home-movie clips, create CD-based photo albums and back up files direct to CD. But that's not as cool as grooving to your 33s and 45s.
© 1999 Sydney Morning Herald
Share This