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Nick Bailuc
Asked: 2014-09-10 13:17:24 +0800 CST

How to retrieve sound from a turntable via USB

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I have a turntable which has a USB made for digitalizing Vinyl records via USB (usb A to usb B not audio to usb). It came with a disk that had "EZ Vinyl/Tape Archiver" which requires itunes to run. What program can receive audio data and record it?

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    You can use audacity for this purpose. To install, run the following command:

    sudo apt-get install audacity

    According to this post, just select Edit-Preferences, and in "Recording" select "ALSA: USB Audio CODEC: USB Audio (hw:1,0)" input. Then, press record and drop the needle.

    Realtime playback is kind of tricky and I can't remember exactly how to get that working. Supposedly, Ubuntu devs decided to do away with that by default because of feedback from microphone input which is inherit with any professional recording setup and was a real dumb move for them to change but I digress. Anyway, it is possible; you just have to figure it out.

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