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From Mark Harris, your Guide to Digital Music

In this week's edition of the Digital Music newsletter:

  • USB Turntables: Rediscover Your Old Record Collection.
  • iTunes LP: A Virtual Way to Enjoy a Vinyl Album?
  • Top Album Art Websites.
  • MP3Gain: Cleaning up Sound Distortion in Your MP3s.


USB Turntables: Rediscover Your Old Record Collection

If you're old enough to remember when vinyl was king, then you might still have a record collection somewhere (like in the attic). Modern stereo systems seldom come with turntables and so over time you may have simply lost touch with your sizable collection of classic songs. Online music services like iTunes, Amazon MP3, etc., boast huge libraries that cover many genres and eras, but even these can fall short when it comes to the vintage classics in your vinyl collection. You may even find that some of your vinyl-based music never... Read more

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iTunes LP: A Virtual Way to Enjoy a Vinyl Album?

To try and recapture the experience of owning physical albums like vinyl, Apple invented their iTunes LP format to fill this gap in the market. The company also added more modern multimedia benefits (almost DVD-like) to their iTunes LP standard such as: interactive menus, music videos, and animated lyrics. For more information, read this iTunes LP definition article. Read more

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Top Album Art Websites

You may think that software media players like iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc., can find and download all the album art you need for your digital music library. However, there are times when you'll need to look further afield in order to successfully populate your music collection with the right CD covers. Read more

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MP3Gain Tutorial: Cleaning up Sound Distortion in Your MP3s

Whether you have captured streaming audio, digitized music from vinyl record/analog tape, or even recorded your own voice via a microphone, there can be instances when your digital audio captures can suffer from audio clipping. Find out how you can use MP3Gain to quickly normalize problematic digital audio files in this tutorial. Read more

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