[Closed] Re-buying LP's from iTunes you had on vinyl already.

If you've loads & want to listen to them again? Instead of buying them again why not buy a USB turntable (or connect your turntable up through an amp) & some audio conversion/editing software?

I bought a lot of Vinyl as a youngster.

When it got to modern day times, I started questioning why I was having to buy it again for a digital age. After all, it is the content, not the medium that the recording studios assure us we are paying for.

So I torrented everything I used to own on vinyl.

Seeing as how it's a pain to copy vinyl to digital, it makes perfect sense to buy a digital version for ease of use on a portable music player. I mean, have you ever [i]tried[/i] a portable record player? The disk sticks out of the edges and the stylus only stays in the groove when it's flat on a table, plus trying to carry a dozen or so LP's around is a royal PITA. it's why they invented the Walkman.

Thought about vinyl conversion with a usb turntable but even IF I could do 3 a night it would still well over a year. 😯

Since you already own the licence to listen to the music, I would have no qualms downloading the albums from an unofficial source 😉 on mp3 and importing into itunes.

I've done the same with my vinyl, I started converting it but after realising the sheer scale of the task, I downloaded it from soulseek.
A caveat - AFAIK, legally they will do you for sharing files, not downloading them,(hard to do one without the other), so owning the original counts for nothing. At least that's what I can deduce from the cease and desist notices I got from CBS... I could stand corrected.

I think there are ways of strangling your upload speed to ~0 b/s, and so you're not actually sharing anything. Or so I have read.

If you've got a turntable to start with theres no need to buy a USB one, your computer should have an audio imput somewhere, if not there'll be something you can plug in between the two machines. And you don't need to laboriously slave over digitising stuff, just have everything set up and import records whenever you have the notion to actually listen to them.

You'll probably find that a lot of what you own on vinyl makes a nice keepsake but you'll not actually be yearning to play the majority of them very often, in fact if you've got 1000s of them then the reality is that you can't possibly be listening to a great many of them. So whats the difference between not listening to the vinyl version or not listening the a digital version, other than the vinyl making a nice ornament and an occasional talking point.

You'll probably only digitise about 10% of your collection in the end.