which drive for audioCD

[hankduck]

Hi;

I'm a novice in this area and am about to attempt to transfer all my vinyl LP's to CDAudio. I'm planning on using a laptop with a 1.4 ghz cpu running Windows XP and an Edirol UA-1X.

The laptop has an internal 60 Gig Toshiba Ultra IDE hard drive and I also have a Maxtor 60 Gig external hard drive which runs off the 1394 external port on the laptop. The lap top also has an internal Toshiba DVD/R/RW drive which I plan to use as my burner on Audio CDs. I'm not sure but it is probably an IDE slave. I'm trying to decide which drive to record to, the internal Toshiba Ultra IDE or the External Maxtor?

Any advice will be appreciated.

Hank

[bubba freaktree]

shouldn't matter much either way. this is a simple data path. stereo input, no multitracking, no zero-latency monitoring.

so try doing it to the external drive so you're not pounding on your internal drive needlessly.

remember every minute of stereo audio takes up roughly 10 megs. so a 45 minute lp will be 450 megs. so think two lps to a gig as a ball park figure.

[Bops2000]

If I may suggest...
'audio cleaning lab' from Magix - really makes it easy. 20 bucks in The states
Also been trying to convert vinyl to cd's for 3 years now http://www.audioforums.com/forums/smile.gif
never get the chance it seems..
You may find the need for a pre-amp from the changer to the sound card if you want to just use windows software..
have fun
Boppers

[hankduck]

Thank you both for your comments. By the way, how does one merge (join) wav files???

Hank