LP Ripper

Convert your Vinyl LPs, cassettes or tapes to CDs or MP3 files

Converting your LPs, cassettes or tapes to CDs is a great way of storing and playing your favourite music. You can now listen to your LPs in the car, on the computer etc. - anywhere you have a CD player - and the sound quality does not deteriorate like it does with vinyl or tape.

If you convert to MP3, Windows Media (WMA) or a similar compressed format you can store the equivalent of a dozen LPs onto a single CD. With a software MP3 player like WinAmp or a portable MP3 player, like the Apple iPod, you can play any mix of tracks you like.

Either way, you can play your music as often as you like, without damaging the originals.

If you have already tried to do this you'll have discovered how fiddly and time-consuming it is, recording each track as a WAV file to record to CD or converting it to an MP3 file.

LP Ripper is a Windows program that makes the task much easier and quicker. Just record each side of your LP as a single WAV file on your computer using a program like LP Recorder. LP Ripper automatically splits the file into a separate WAV file for each track. If you have a command-line MP3 or WMA Encoder, LP Ripper will use that to produce an MP3 or WMA file for each track.

Features

• Listen to previews of the tracks.
• Adjust the fade-in / fade-out of selected tracks – useful for live recordings.
• Replace the hiss between tracks with silence.
• Copy / Paste / Edit Tracks names from track listings
• Save editing progress between sessions.
• Use LP Recorder .TRK files for fast operation
• Designed for Microsoft Windows XP and compatible with Windows 98, ME and 2000.
  
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• Visual Track Trimming
  Trim the start and end of each track visually to a precision of 0.1 seconds by dragging the track marker on the graphical display. The upper display shows the recording level of all of the tracks, highlighting the track you are trimming. The lower display shows the track you are trimming in detail.

• Instant Analysis
  Track detection is lightning fast. You can experiment with different sensitivity levels and numbers of tracks in seconds.

• Insert silence before and after tracks.
• Save editing progress between sessions.
• Optionally store MP3 album title, track name etc. (ID3 Tags) with the MP3 file.
• Control MP3 or WMA Encoder quality with a slider control.
• System requirements, list of files etc.
  
  

Can I try it out?

Download the trial copy of LP Ripper. It includes all features of the registered full version for you to use for an unlimited time except that it only saves the first two tracks.

How do I use it?

1. Connect the tape output of your stereo to the line input of your soundcard.
2. Use LP Recorder, Cool Edit or similar WAV file recorder to record the whole of each side of your vinyl LPs as a single WAV format file.
3. Run LP Ripper on the WAV file. It will automatically split the file into tracks by looking for the gaps between the tracks.
4. Adjust the track times and names if you need to.
5. Save each track as a separate WAV file.
6. If you have a command-line MP3 encoder like the freeware FastEnc, LP Ripper will automatically call it to convert each WAV file into an MP3 file.
7. Alternatively, use your CD Writer software to copy the WAV files to an Audio format CD which you can then play on a standard stereo or car CD player.