The manual tagging process is also problematic, because there's no way to listen to a track to confirm it's what you think it is - kind of like trying to give names to photos or videos without seeing the image on your screen. But this means you have to be at your computer as you record, clicking the "New Track" button within the few-second break between each song. This means you can end up with several files with the same song name - and will need to manually splice the files together.ĮZ Vinyl/Tape Creator does let you manually indicate that a new track is starting as you record, which avoids the split-track problem. When I tried it, it split some tracks, such as "Girl With No Eyes" from the album It's a Beautiful Day, into three files and one song, from Judy Collins' In My Life, into two files. However, the upgrade's automatic new-track detection (which you can turn off) is far from accurate. That's true - as long as nothing goes wrong.
In theory, all you have to do is click the mouse one or two times per track, ending up with separated, tagged tracks under iTunes. The application was created to work with the Numark and Ion turntables, but it will work with others.ĮZ Vinyl Converter identifies when one track stops and another starts, and then fetches ID tagging information - artist, album, track name, etc. For Mac users, the Ion and Numark also included EZ Audio Converter for Mac, while Audio-Technica, Stanton and Pro-Ject recommended getting Audacity.ĮZ Vinyl Converter and the upgrade EZ Vinyl/Tape Converter (which you can download free using your Ion or Numark turntable's serial number) are from MixMeister, a software company also owned by Numark Industries.
I tested two Windows programs bundled with the USB turntables: EZ Vinyl Converter 3 for Windows, which is included with the Ion and Numark turntables, and Cakewalk's pyro Audio Creator LE, included with the Audio-Technica and Stanton USB turntables. At least one of the accompanying programs, Cakewalk's pyro Audio Creator, ran fine on my May 2008-vintage desktop (with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB RAM and Windows XP Pro SP3) but was too much for my four-year-old IBM ThinkPad notebook). Similarly, you can use these USB turntables with Windows, Mac, Linux or any other computer/OS that has a USB port - as long as the system has enough processing power for the software. Any USB turntable can be used with any of the included - or other - software. It's important to note that there's no inherent connection between a given USB turntable and whatever software you use. Of course, the turntable hardware won't do you any good without software to capture the input stream to your hard drive and split each song into a separate file. Of 5 Software for capturing and processing audio
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