This is not exactly a computer question but being in the 'techy' area some of you may know about it.

Is there a machine that you can play old 78's (records that is) on and download/burn/copy straight onto a CD that would be inserted into the same machine. I know I can do this through the PC but something along the lines of what I have asked would be sooo much easier and quicker.

Zante

There are solutions, but some involve using your PC anyway. Read the reviews on the cheaper solutions.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=vinyl+to+cd&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=3224636379&ref=pd_sl_s8yju21m_b

http://forums.techguy.org/multimedia/166639-direct-cd-recording.html

There's also expensive kit:

http://www.cdrecordingsoftware.com/cdrecord.html

If you use your PC to do it, leads to go from a hi-fi output to PC input are cheap to buy so might be the best option, even if it means you can't record directly. A new laptop specifically for recording music would be cheaper than the kit in the link above.

Hope this helps Zante.

That helps a lot Dave - gives me information to work on and I will get to study the pages in full later on when I have more time. Zant.e

Probably if I was going to do any amount of transferring then i would go for something like this.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=98232
But I have seen them cheaper in the past with the USB connection.

Playing old 78s will possibly be the problem, but if you read the details on this one, it says 78s are played at 33 speed then transferred to 78 speed with the supplied software.

However, my set-up is a stand alone record player (part of a stack system) plugged into the audio input of a hifi system.
Now because I don't have audio out on the hifi, I use the headphone socket to the PC audio in socket.
"But" to do this you have to have the correct record deck (Pre-amp or not Pre-amp) one will work the other won't.

Thanks - this is not exactly my thing - getting info for husband so will print these out for him to read - the machines on web pages are, of course in England, but if I know they exist I can probably find the same here! Thanks, Zante