{"id":143,"date":"2007-06-01T17:37:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T00:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2007-06-01T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T00:37:27","slug":"whats-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"What’s a record?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you talk to someone born after 1990 about playing records on a turntable they will probably look at you like you just spoke a foreign language.\u00c2\u00a0 For those of us who grew up getting our tunes from LPs and 45 it’s probably been a while since you’ve seen or heard one.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That all changed for me today and in a very cool way.<\/p>\n

I’ve got about 200 records I’ve collected starting in the late 60s with Sonny and Cher’s In Case You’re in Love <\/strong>to sometime in the late 80s with who knows what.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven’t heard any of these records since I got married in 1994 because they have been hidden in the garage from hell.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that Jenny finally got it cleaned out we found the old records but alas how was I going to play said records since I don’t have a record player anymore.<\/p>\n

What I really wanted to do was convert them to CD or MP3 so I could take them with me on my bike or in my car.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought about getting a turntable and hooking it to my sound card\u00c2\u00a0 but then I found this!<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a turntable made to copy your records to the computer using USB and software.\u00c2\u00a0 The software they include is Audacity which Daryl has mentioned on his blog and I have used for quite a while.<\/p>\n

This thing is so cool!\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve converted a couple of albums so far and I plan to spend the weekend doing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you talk to someone born after 1990 about playing records on a turntable they will probably look at you like you just spoke a foreign language.\u00c2\u00a0 For those of us who grew up getting our tunes from LPs and 45 it’s probably been a while since you’ve seen or heard one.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That all changed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}