If your like me you will have a great collection of Vinyl albums, with a slight crackle, that you can’t get on tape, minidisc or CD probably due to the fact that the release has been deleted, so you can either put the album on a tape, but how many people have tapes in their cars these days, or you can convert your LP direct to digital format!

The LP Saver is an ideal piece of kit for doing this it plugs directly into your computer via the USB socket and your away.

The Turntable even comes with standard RCA cables to conect up to your standard sound system, now you can add your LPs to your iPod and even burn them onto CD to play in your car for example!

The LP Saver with play speeds of 33 1/3, 45, and 78 RPM so that should cover most peoples collection. All the necessary software comes with the turntable. In addition, not only can you convert your albums to MP3s or any other digital files, but the included software actually improves the quality of the recordings by eliminating some of the old pops, hisses and static they’ve acquired over the years. Finally, the tone arm returns to the armrest at the end of the record, just like old times.

Now I’m not saying I’ve got all my CDs on my new iPod just yet, but I came across some tapes with some amazing album on such as Profiles by Nick Mason, so now I have the challenge of getting the tapes onto my iTunes, ok, so I could get some on CD, but, the Profiles album is not available on CD, I couldn’t find it except on Amazon for nearly £40, honestly £40.

So I have decided to copy the album onto a CD or MniDisc (MD’s are easier to edit) and then just transfer the CD onto iTunes via the computer, I’ve come up on the same problem with some of my old vinyl albums, yes kids many years ago people would put music on a piece of plastic and then put a gold coated diamond needle on it to play music.

The great thing about the vinyl is I can filter out some of the crackle through my PC, so some advantage there, but all this is time consuming, but for those rare (amazing) albums that record companies in their wisdom have decided to delete or not even bother re-releasing on CD, I’m afraid it’s the only way..