Free vinyl software for windows

Vinyl To MP3 2.0 is an easy-to-use and powerful program for converting LP records to MP3 files. Vinyl To MP3 is compatible with most versions of Microsoft Windows, including Vista.

To use Vinyl To MP3, you should connect the output of your amplifier to the computer's sound card input. You cannot connect the vinyl record player directly to the sound card, because the audio is too low and it's coded, so it must pass through the amp first, before you can feed it into the sound card. So make sure that the turntable is hooked up to your amplifier (it should be already). Then connect the output of the amp to the sound card input. Or if your amplifier has a headphone output, then it'll work fine too. Then you're ready to rock n' roll. If you don't have a cable that fits, then you might want to try Radio Shack or a similar shop.

Major Features:

1. Record You may record the two sides of the LP and the recording has an "auto switch off recording" mode so it stops recording when one of the sides has been recorded. That means you may leave the software running and do something else so you don't need to worry that it'll continue recording and eat hard disk space, because it may stop automatically.
2. Split You can mark with the mouse where the songs should be split. Or if you don't want to do that, you may use the "auto sense" mode which tries to detect where a new song begins.
3. Encode The software may start encoding to MP3 files immediately after is has split the recording.
4. Burn You may burn an audio CD or a CD with MP3 files, if you wish.
5. Boost You may boost the volume, because sometimes it might be hard to set exactly the maximum volume when you record a vinyl record. The software can ensure that the MP3 files gets the maximum possible volume.
6. Adjust You may adjust the EQ as well. Vinyl records have a tendency to sound a bit lo-fi or dull compared with digital media. But with Vinyl to mp3 you may boost the treble.
7. Graphical You may decide where you should cut the recording into songs, by using the graphical display. Just click with the mouse.
8. Fade If you are recording a live album you might want to introduce fade in/outs between the songs.
9. Alert The software can play a sound with a voice saying it has finished. Good if you're away from the computer. Just raise the volume and wait for it to finish. Watch TV meanwhile or have dinner.
10. Set rates You may decide which bitrate the MP3 files (or Ogg files) should be encoded with. The software supports low rates, for example 96 kbit/s and high rates, for example 320 kbit/s.

Enhancements: Bug fixes.