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Soliciting suggestions for a turn key media server to convert all my music from vinyl, SACDs, and CDs to lossless digital format. The ideal media server for me would also digitize movies from Blu-ray disks and DVDs. Thank you.
 
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So, on a boat....Size and portability.
A laptop would seem to be the solution. Add a couple of LARGE external drives, and you're golden.

Vinyl? There are several USB connectable turntables. I've not used one, but they exist. I'm about 1/3 the way through converting my vinyl collection to 'files'. Probably have 400 to go.
The hard part is actually splitting each side of the album into individual tracks, and naming each file. Easy, just tedious.
In the past I've used Audacity for this.
Playing off a regular turntable, through a regular receiver, through a USB device, into the PC.
No problem, except for "time".

CD? There are many applications that will do this
Blu-ray? No idea, as I don't have one. But I'm sure that could be done.
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Thank you for your fast reply! I want to be able to bring my music and movie collection on board my sailing yacht when I make the transition to living aboard, hopefully in a year or so, which should give me time to digitize and store my music and movie collections so that I can play them back through video and audio systems on board the boat.
 
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I can buy a PC (or Mac, for that matter) easily enough. I just don't know what is available as far as converters that would allow me to convert music or movies from a turntable, CD player, or Blu-ray player to high definition/lossless files that I can organize and play back once I'm aboard a boat.
 
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So, on a boat....Size and portability.
A laptop would seem to be the solution. Add a couple of LARGE external drives, and you're golden.

Vinyl? There are several USB connectable turntables. I've not used one, but they exist. I'm about 1/3 the way through converting my vinyl collection to 'files'. Probably have 400 to go.
The hard part is actually splitting each side of the album into individual tracks, and naming each file. Easy, just tedious.
In the past I've used Audacity for this.
Playing off a regular turntable, through a regular receiver, through a USB device, into the PC.
No problem, except for "time".

CD? There are many applications that will do this
Blu-ray? No idea, as I don't have one. But I'm sure that could be done.
 
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Thank you for the recommendation of Audacity. I just ordered a book on it.

We are looking for a boat in the 56 foot range, so it would even accommodate a desk top, but yes, a laptop platform would be great.
I have heard of USB connectable turntables, but what I would really like is to be able to use my Linn LP12 turntable and tone arm with the Grado cartridge installed, and run the analog audio to an analog to digital converter capable of high definition, "lossless" e.g. 24-bit/96KHz or better analog to digital conversion.

This would make for larger files of course, but, as you point out, the major limiting factor is the time required for labeling cuts, etc, given that digital storage is becoming cheaper by the day.

I haven't found any analog to digital converters capable of 24-bit/96KHz conversion yet. If you could recommend some analog to digital conversion hardware, I would appreciate it.

Speaking of time, I am surprised that, what with every smart phone being able to identify thousands of pieces of music within a few seconds of audio input, no software (to my knowledge) has come out to help people digitizing large quantities of music by automatically recognizing the music, and labelling artists, albums, titles, cut lengths, etc.
 
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One of the other reasons I mentioned a laptop as the onboard playback mech is because they are a little bit more shock resistant than a desktop.

I don't have any specific info on recent A/D devices. You'll just have to look around.
 
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