ION LP DOCK USB Turntable with Universal Dock for iPod
from Ion
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Model No: ION LPDOCK
Index: Digital & Electronics
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Digital Box Price: £121.50
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Product Description Its as easy as 1 2 3 STEP 1 Play your records and click RECORD in EZ Vinyl Converter 2 to begin recording. STEP 2 Click the NEW TRACK button at the end of each track. When finished, songs go straight into iTunes! STEP 3 Use iTunes to create playlists, organize your music, listen to your songs on the computer or transfer to your iPod.
Does what it says on the tin BUT!!!!!!  Sent: 31 October 2008
The turntable really does what it says on the tin - it turns your vinyl into MP3 files for import onto an iPod, but boy do you have to go through some hoops to get there. If you have accumulated vinyl from your days at university in the 60's and 70's, then forget getting track names from gracenote. This utility is patchy at the best, and if you have classic music albums, eg beethovens Violin concerto, then forget the various parts to whole piece ie the Allegro, andante con molto, gracenote gets it as the title of the first piece, and as classical recordings tend not to have deliniated tracks, but fade into each other, then one has to go into iTunes and insert the names manually.
Or if you have a pop album but don't want all the tracks, you have to stop the turntable between tracks and lift the off the tone arm, and move it to where you want - there is no cueing device - an audiophile's nightmare, meanwhile the software is recording all the time and the picking up and putting down is faithfully recorded. Forget Audacity, it is so complicated to use.
Recording direct to iPod is not what you think - the tracks are recorded into the voice recorder on iPod, and to make sense of it,it has to be imported into iTunes to put it in some sort of order, ie to get the track names.
As I said at the beginning - it does what it says on the tin, but getting there is so time consuming that you really have to want to convert your vinyl into MP3. The REALLY sad part is that this is the only machine that does this - be prepared for a L O N G job!!
EZ Peasy  Sent: 19 April 2008
Bought this item about four weeks ago, superb and easy to use software that generally gives you the result you want simply by plug & play. No need to type in 90% of your vinyl tracks as Gracenotes picks it all up as it transfers in 6 easy steps.
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