Can I use a record player to play Lasers Discs?
Hi yall, I'm really into iTunes, I've bought like three tthousand songs on there it rocks. But like my grandma just gave me this record player, and I was wondering if I can play the soundtrack from a Lasers Disc on the record player ? The size is exactly like the same so I think it could work.
How do I record music from my tv to a CD that I can play in a CD player in my truck please explain?
So I guess you are looking to record some sound from a show or something. Anyway, you need to hook your TV up to a digital recording device and your best bet would be your computer. If your TV has a headphone jack on it then all you need is a male to male 1/8 audio cable (see below). However, most larger TVs only have RCA audio output. In this case your just need an RCA to 1/8 audio cable (see below). Either way you need to connect one end to the TV and the other to your computer's microphone or line in jack. Then you need to find a program to record the audio. I highly recommend that you use audacity, it is free (see below). Then save you music to a .wav file and burn it to a cd using any program you want, iTunes is a good choice you just but the music in a playlist. You also might consider going into the preferences of the program you use to burn the CD and lowing the burn speed to 8x or lower because older car stereos don't play high speed burnt CDs well. Good Luck
Does a record player play 'flexi records'?
Flexi records used to be the only way to make a cheap studio quality demo record in the days before cassettes and CDs. (mid 1950s -60s) (Home tape recorders were pretty awful quality then, and very expensive for what they were.) They were usually directly recorded onto a square or sometimes round piece of transparent plastic. The plastic was about as thick as a thin sheet of card so it could easily be bent and they were easily damaged. When they were played on a deck you had to be very careful as too heavy an arm could push the needle/stylus through the plastic, and too light an arm would just skip across the record. You would normally need to put something flat under them for them to play properly, but as they were thin plastic they would often slip and "wow" with the weight of the arm on them. There were specialist shops/Studios where 1950s/60s bands could go in and record a flexi disc as a demo. They were usually one hit affairs. The band would do several rehearsals while the engineer set the levels and then they would have to do a really good take for the proper recording. You paid for each disc that was made. If it was crap you paid again. Records were quite an expensive item at the time, so mass produced flexi discs (45rpm) were sometimes given away as free gifts with soap powder and cereals. It is very possible that even a band like The Who, Beatles, Stones etc would have made one of these flexi discs as demos in the early days especially before they got famous. Whether it will sound any good now is a different matter! This one looks like it has been recorded onto the same format, but much more recently. It was probably done like this to save money. The same will apply!
How do you play a CD on a DVD player?
Virtually all DVD players will play a CD just by hitting the "Play" button (the little right facing triangle icon). Typically the fast forward and "skip" buttons will work as well. Audio will be output either from the RCA white and red connectors on the rear, or from a headphone jack (if it has one). On current mimimalist players, perhaps audio might be available only over HDMI, in which case you'd need to listen on your HDMI TV or use an optical or analog output from the TV to another amplifier to use with better speakers.
Do all record players use the same size vinyl? If they don't, how do you know what size to use?
No. All record players don't use the same size vinyl. Basically, there are three different-sized vinyl records you will find on the market. These vinyl records rotate on the turntable at different speeds which are measured in revolutions per minute (RPM). The record player you are using has a speed switch that you need to manually change according to the type of record you’re using.Three types of vinyl records are12-inch vinyl record: A 12-inch(30 cm) vinyl record plays at 33 RPM. This typically stores up to 22 minutes of music on each side. Nearly every album you see in a store will be a 12-inch record.10-inch vinyl record: A 10-inch(25 cm) vinyl record plays at 78 RPM. It is a rare size vinyl record. It is most commonly older records that play at 78 RPM.7-inch vinyl record: A 7-inch(18 cm) vinyl record plays at 45 RPM. This normally fits around five minutes of music on each side and is used for singles.The slower a record turns, the worse the audio sounds. Due to this, in order to provide the best sound possible, the record needs to turn faster (higher RPM). Every turntable can play 33 and 45 RPM records. Only those classified as “three-speed” support 78 RPM. You can get android or iOS apps to test the performance of your turntable.For more information, visit https://www.hereon.biz/record-pl....
How do I record songs from a friend's car music CD player?
To start with, it's just extremely unlikely that this one player is the only one that it will play on. You need to find a player that will read it from which you can get line-out signal to make a recording. Try a DVD and/or Blu-Ray player, which have lasers at different specs and which may be better at the type of error correction needed to read your disc. Try it in every player you can get access to -- this may sound like a pain but it is going to be easier than what you will have to do to record it from the car player. Here's what you would have to do for that:- disconnect the speaker wires from the left and right speakers (whichever pair is easier to access) and splice longer wires to them - get a speaker-to-line-level converter like this one:Russound ADP-1.2 Speaker-level to Line-level Adapter(There may be cheaper versions available on eBay and elsewhere, but you don't want to compromise quality if this is truly a valuable recording).- use it to convert the sound from the speaker output of the car stereo to a line-level that you can record on a computer (you will also need the right cables to do that connection which I will leave as an exercise) - carefully adjust the volume output on the car stereo and practice recording until you can get a level of sound that provides a full dynamic range but does not overdrive the converter and cause clipping- make your recording at a high-quality level (preferably full .WAV files which can be converted to other formats later). You will still lose some fidelity vs. the original recording; how much will depend on the quality of the player.
What are good record player, CD, and cassette combination players?
I’ve never seen any that fit the qualifier “good.” Your minimal standards should be:A turntable that doesn’t rapidly ruin your records as they play, andA cassette player that features good frequency response, manual record level, Dolby NR and switchable bias/equalization for standard/chrome/metal tapes. OK, metal is at this point probably optional, but at least the other two.The CD player will likely be acceptable in fidelity, if not necessarily in reliability.And of course you need an amplifier and speakers that are neutral enough in tonal balance and loud enough for at least moderate listening levels without the fuzz and buzz of distortion adding “sandpaper grit” to your listening session.You might manage this with an entry-level stereo receiver ($100-ish) and Dayton or Monoprice or Pioneer speakers (also a hundred-ish) plus an entry-level turntable from Audio Technica or Sony or Pioneer (another hundred plus, preferably two hundred for best record life), pretty much any CD or DVD player (almost all of which also play CDs) on sale ($50-ish) and, if you really really need it, a cassette deck with Dolby, tape adjust and manual record levels (getting hard to find, but under a hundred). If you won’t be recording tapes, you might find a used higher-end Walkman tape player and use its headphone or line output.A home theatre in a box (HTiB) system might handle the disc/amp/speakers end of it, but you’d still need one that could take at least two line level additional inputs and either a turntable with built-in phono preamp or an external phono preamp with a more traditional turntable to plug into it and a line input for the cassette deck. Hard to find, and it’d still be $500+ when all was said and done.Checking Craigslist or local garage/estate sales might get you someone’s well-chosen stereo that’s now been replaced by a multi-channel home media center; find a local friend who might help you check it out, and you could save a bundle. You’re looking at technology that was mature (and often excellent) a few decades ago, but should be at garage sale prices by now.No Crosley. Even if cheap; no Crosley/Emerson/Magnavox/Yorx/Soundesign all-in-ones. You deserve better.
How do I play Cassettes on my Detrola Record Player?
I've looked everywhere online for tutorials, it has a spot for cassettes on the right side of it but I don't know how to put it in. Any help is appreciated, Thanks!
Why won't my DVD player play a CD?
All DVD players are intended to be downward-compatible with readable, properly-formated (Red Book standard) CDs. That is, commercially-produced read-only (silver) audio discs.If your player won’t read ANY such CDs it is possibly a non-standard player or (less likely) broken in some unusual way.If there is one particular disc, or a subset of discs that won’t play it might be:The disc is scratched or otherwise damaged. Different players have different levels of sensitivity to such damage, and often a DVD player is actually more sensitive than a CD-only player.The disc is a burned CD-R or CD-RW using a disc type that your particular player has trouble with. Different blank discs use different dyes and different burners and burning speeds can affect the ability of a particular player to read.The disc is a non-standard audio CD - some players can read and play data-formatted discs with .WAV or .MP3 or other format files, but many cannot.
So I found an old CD player, and I can't figure out how to play the CD's without plugging in headphones/earphones. Does it play without them?
It sounds like you have a CD player but no amplifier. In the 1980s a lot of Hi Fi systems were made by combining separate components together to form a Hi Fi system, so you would have a separate record player, tape deck and CD player and wire these 3 components through an amplifier with connected speakers to boost the signal and get external sound.If you only have the CD player then you can only hear sound through the headphone Jack.