Rip Your Own: Digitize Your Records and Tapes (Paperback)

If you're like many music lovers, you still have a lot of your music collection on old records and tape cassettes. You probably want to be able to listen to a lot of that music on your iPod, but re-purchasing all of it in digital form would cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. Have no fear, this book provides an easy-to-read, non-technical guide to digitizing all of those records on the cheap. You'll get an overview of the tools available to help you with the task and how to find them. From there, you'll get a gentle introduction to the world of digital audio that focuses on the task at hand with no unnecessary tech-speak. You'll also learn how to use the software that can digitize that music into your computer, including how to clean up tape hiss, hum, pops, and clicks from the material. You'll even get tips on how to organize your MP3s and which MP3 players are the best buy. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to transfer all of your old records and tapes to MP3s you can listen to on the go, remastered some of your scratched records and worn-out tapes, and learned a little bit of pro audio to boot. So what are you waiting for? Your new digital music library awaits you!

如果你和許多音樂愛好者一樣，你可能仍然保留著許多舊唱片和錄音帶的音樂收藏。你可能希望能夠在iPod上聆聽這些音樂，但是重新以數位形式購買所有音樂可能需要花費數百甚至數千美元。不用擔心，這本書提供了一個易於閱讀、非技術性的指南，教你以低成本將這些唱片數位化。你將獲得一個概述，了解有哪些工具可以幫助你完成這項任務以及如何找到它們。從那裡開始，你將輕鬆入門數位音頻世界，專注於手頭的任務，不會有不必要的技術術語。你還將學習如何使用軟體將音樂數位化到你的電腦中，包括如何清除錄音帶上的噪音、嗡嗡聲、爆音和點擊聲。你甚至還會獲得有關如何組織你的MP3和哪些MP3播放器是最佳選擇的提示。通過閱讀本書，你將學會將所有舊唱片和錄音帶轉換為可以隨時隨地聆聽的MP3，修復一些刮傷的唱片和磨損的錄音帶，並且還能學到一些專業音頻知識。那麼，你還在等什麼呢？你的新數位音樂庫已經等著你了！