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The Secrets Of Vinyl

synthhead — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:06:26 +0000

This BBC documentary reveals some of the secrets of how vinyl LPs are created.

It’s fascinating – but it’s also amazing at how complex and labor-intensive the process is.

Cool Documentary: Vinyl Wax Records

synthhead — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:32:09 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

Vinyl Wax Records takes an affectionate look at vinyl LPs.

via Darren Cole:

This is a documentary I made my freshman year of college about apart of my life that I love so much and never plan to give up.

Vinyl Sales Up By 36%

synthhead — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:38:56 +0000

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, shipments of vinyl LPs jumped more than 36 percent from 2006 to 2007, growing to more than 1.3 million. Shipments of CDs dropped more than 17 percent during the same period, to 511 million, as they lost some ground to digital formats

Nearly 450 million CDs were sold last year, versus just under 1 million LPs, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Based on the first three months of this year, Nielsen says vinyl album sales could reach 1.6 million in 2008.

“I don’t think vinyl is for everyone; it’s for the die-hard music consumer,” said Jay Millar, director of marketing at United Record Pressing, a Nashville based company that is the nation’s largest record pressing plant.

An avid music fan himself, Millar says he has moved to vinyl in recent years.

“Once I got my first iPod … I’m looking at my wall of CDs and trying to justify it,” Millar said. “The things I like — the artwork, the liner notes, the sound quality — it dawns on me, those are things I like better on vinyl.” He welcomed back the pops and clicks, even some of the scratches.

“I like that fact that it’s imperfect in a lot of ways, live music is imperfect too,” Millar said.

Image: Tilton Lane

New App Rips From Vinyl And Automatically Identifies The Artist And Track

synthhead — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:17:25 +0000

MixMeister has announced EZ Vinyl Converter 2, a new app being bundled with turntables from Numark and ION Audio which reads incoming audio from a turntable and uses Gracenote’s MusicID technology to automatically fill in the artist, album, and song information.

Users need only to click the “New Track” button at the end of each track. After songs are captured, EZ Vinyl Converter 2 automatically transfers them to iTunes as MP3 files.

EZ Vinyl Converter 2 software is available through bundles with Numark and ION Audio in the following products:

Numark: TTUSB, TTXUSB, and TTi
ION Audio: TTUSB, TTUSB10, LP DOCK

Owners of the above products who purchased their turntable prior to the bundling of EZ Vinyl Converter 2 can download the software for free at www.numark.com and www.ionaudio.com web sites, depending on the product purchased.