The DVJ-X1: Pioneer's digital video
turntable

Economy of Scales: Turntable Furniture

createdigitalmusic's Peter Kirn has been out musical cool-hunting again. Here's his latest report: Who says you can't fill your home with lots of music gear and look good doing it? If you've got two turntables and a very large wad of dough, you can dock your decks in style with one of two space-age turntable tables. DUAL Furniture's floating coffins are suspended to avoid rumble, though you're more likely to put them in your home because they look cool. You should be able to mount it properly for stability, but if you want your decks more grounded, the alien-pod DJ Kreemy Table (street just under $3000) was good enough for a Queer Eye episode. Both of these are designed for vinyl turntables, of course—leave the iPods at home [Or at least on a different table! -Ed.]. Thanks to Max and Wally for the tips.

A picture of the super-slick DJ Kreemy table after the jump.

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How to rip vinyl, per the NYT

This meant that once one person had gone to the trouble of ripping a disc, it made a lot of sense not to replicate that effort: better to download someone else's rips from her Napster share than to go through that fooforaw on your own.

Today, ripping CDs is literally a one-click operation, but ripping vinyl is still very freaking hard. Newsgroups like alt.binaries.sounds.78-era often get nice payloads of ripped wax, shellac and vinyl, but the general attack on P2P means that this stuff is getting harder and harder to find on demand, which means that more and more of us are having to individually rip our music, one side at a time, in order to transfer and preserve it (80% of the music ever recorded isn't available for sale -- if you want to hear the song on that groovy LP through your iPod's headphones, you're gonna have to get ripping).

Some LP restoration software suites, including Pinnacle Clean Plus ($100), come with an external preamp that plugs into a U.S.B. port and works with your existing sound card. (Clean Plus and other software choices are described in more detail in the accompanying article.) There is also the iMic from Griffin Technologies ($40, www.griffintechnologies.com), a small input device that converts analog signals to digital outside of the computer, eliminating the possibility of electronic interference from other computer components...

You also need lots of hard-drive space, because sound files occupy about 10 megabytes per minute; that would be almost a gigabyte for all 77 minutes of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica."

How to rip from vinyl or tape

Memories of vinyl

test press of Communicate with notes from Mark

I seem to be getting into these diary-like entries these days, but digging through old vinyl and reading the little notes from Mark brought back a lot of memories. I'm struggling with how to bring some of those memories into the medium I have today.

64 bit VIA Vinyl Audio driver out now

"gebrauchte Vinyl-Platten"

"From Vinyl to Digital, Hold the
Crackle"

Streaming rip of Tiki Room vinyl

Downloads outsell DVDs and vinyl

From Vinyl to Digital, Hold the Crackle

"create images of wax cylinders and old
vinyl"

Peoplesoft spurns Oracle's final final
offer

Space: Final frontier is final resting
place

More kitschy Star Wars holiday vinyl

The Rebel Force Band isn't the only rare Star Wars music out there. As scary as it may sound, there was a Star Wars Christmas album, and as you will hear, it's probably the worst holiday music ever recorded.

With songs like "What Can You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb?)" and "R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas" performed by a pre-fame Bon Jovi, your ears will be begging for mercy. The force was definitely not with the creators of this album.

Japanese Vinyl Boba Fett Exclusive

eBay Today: Christmas DVD, CD, And Vinyl
Album

New Accessory Skins for the iPOD Shuffle
MP3 Player Unvailed by Evolution Vinyl
Works

car designers upset over blingin' vinyl
tops

eBay Today: Vintage Vinyl Caped Jawa

Salon: Grokster means the freedom to rip
your vinyl and own your data

If the entertainment studios had their way, every time a format changed, you'd have to buy all your records all over again. In their ideal world, we would hold restricted licenses to our content, not ownership. Digital rights management would cripple our all-powerful computers, creating backups would be impossible, and the basic human impulse to share the wealth of information that helps define who we are would be beset with obstacles. This is not paranoia. At every step of the way, intellectual-property-right holders have resisted technological innovations that give ordinary people more scope to enjoy and consume music, television, movies or any other content.

That's why MGM vs. Grokster is so important. The deeper we get into the digital age, the more we will be defined not by our relationships with physical objects but with the data that we have accumulated in our journeys through life. If we lose the right to own that data and do what we want with it, if the power of the computer, and the Net, is taken from us, we're at risk of losing a lot more than a few files -- we stand at risk of losing the evidence that tells us who we are.

Legal Net music romps ahead of DVD,
vinyl, tape

Evolution Vinyl Works Unveils New
Accessory Stickers for the PSP™ Handheld

Wave Corrector - Process Vinyl Records
and Cassette Tapes on your PC

Evolution Vinyl Works Unveils Giveaway
for a Brand New Sony© PSP™

Cutting Edge Nintendo DS™ Skins Revealed
by Evolution Vinyl Works

Griffin offers Final Vinyl 1.1, turntable connection cable