How do I turn my laptop into an audio receiver?

Krazii Bakon Lypes

The other day I bought several Elvis Costello [vinyl] albums for a friend, and I was thrilled when I serendipitously picked up a Lenny Bruce stand-up album. Immediately afterward, as I was flipping through the "$3 New Arrivals" section, I found a double album of Woody Allen's standup routines. And then I found a shitload of Beatles albums, all of the good Led Zeppelins, and an entire John Lee Hooker section. I could have walked home with a dozen awesome records for under $50! But I have nothing to play them on! I've already got a turntable, but I am missing a receiver and speakers. They appear very expensive, and I do not feel like paying for them, so I was hoping that one of you would know how I could make my laptop (Macbook) into a receiver of some sort.

GcDiaz · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Clinton, MA

Buy or ARRR a Nero suite. It comes with Wave Editor, which will let you record all that shit provided your comp has a Mic In plug. Then you just need a male-to-male, RCA<-->1/8" adapter. I don't think your goal is outright conversion for CD recording or whatever, so as long as you have the In plug you don't even need the software really. Just switch on the Mic option in your playback controls and that should do it.
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sawtooth · heh Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: flashback

what sort of outputs does your record player have? red/white rca jacks, or 3/8" plug or 1/8"? either way, buy the appropriate converter (as long as it ends in something like a headphone jack) and plug it into the jack right behind the headphone jack (it looks like >O< , kind of).

Quicktime Pro can make a sound recording (go to New Audio Recording in the menu, and go to the preferences menu to set the microphone source to "line in").

Audacity, which is free, can do the same.

Audio Hijack can do this too, and EQ/filter it at the same time.

Roxio Toast comes with a program called CD Spin Doctor expressly for this purpose (and has a setup walkthrough at the beginning)

there's, uh, this too: http://www.channld.com/pure-vinyl.html
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Krazii Bakon Lypes · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:04 pm

That's all exceedingly confusing but I am much farther than I was before. Thank you, sirs!

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