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- Vintage Audio (record players, hi-fi etc) (https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14)

- - A crapophone fix? (https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=149621)

peter_scott

15th Sep 2018 8:37 am

Re: A crapophone fix?

You don't need to go to a shop to convert records into MP3 format. The free app Audacity can generate MP3s from music on YouTube of which there is a good selection.

Peter

Graham G3ZVT

15th Sep 2018 5:14 pm

Re: A crapophone fix?

Online services like

www.onlinevideoconverter.com/video-converter

will download the soundtrack of most youtube videos directly as an MP3

crackle

16th Sep 2018 10:29 pm

Re: A crapophone fix?

Quote:

Originally Posted by peter_scott (Post 1075278)

You don't need to go to a shop to convert records into MP3 format. The free app Audacity can generate MP3s from music on YouTube of which there is a good selection.

I thought you need to enable the "Stereo Mix" sound source to record off Youtube. It is possible to do this still in win 7, is it possible to enable "stereo mix" in win 10?

Mike

1100 man

18th Sep 2018 12:03 am

Re: A crapophone fix?

Could not said 'crapophone' meet with an unfortunate accident? Cat jumps on table, crapophone falls on the floor and smashes into a thousand pieces... You'd be devastated of course and the only consolation would be to buy yourself a proper gramophone!!

Seriously though, I recently, for the first time, repaired a portable gramophone from 1927. It was really quite amazing to listen to records recorded in the early '20's. All of us youngsters (50 somethings!) were blown away by this totally mechanical device that could play entertaining music with no electricity! You will have to get yourself a proper one and experience the same thrill!!!

All the best
Nick

Mr Moose

18th Sep 2018 3:24 am

Re: A crapophone fix?

Hello,
http://www.amish.classicalgasemissio...apOPhones.html
Have you tried it?
Yours, Richard

mark_in_manc

18th Sep 2018 8:50 am

Re: A crapophone fix?

Quote:

Originally Posted by firtree (Post 1075163)

This of course provided The Husband lets go of his dream of converting it into a record player. He's already started measuring and sketching...I married MacGyver.

If your husband really wants to go for it...it strikes me that if I wanted to mount the horn-arm-soundbox on bearings, and if I wanted to start from somewhere where most of the work was done already, I'd use the hub-bearings-spindle from a scrap pushbike wheel. I think having a gramophone obviously made of parts of a recycled bicycle would be quite cool. And all in the cause of hi(gher) fi :)

firtree

16th Oct 2018 4:01 pm

Re: A crapophone fix?

Hi, all, sorry for the radio silence, life got in the way. Currently, in light of other urgent and non-skippable life events the crapophone project has been put on the backburner until further notice :/ Thanks to everyone who contributed their invaluable advice. The project is not dead, it's just resting!

(oh, and CD the English way, see dee)

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