Ripping Vinyl Via Your Scanner?

An anonymous reader writes "This site describes a method of extracting audio off of scanned images of vinyl records. Kazaa vinyl swapping is on it's way!" While this method creates exceptionally noisy samples, you can definitely hear the underlying music.

Virile records?

[Perianwyr Stormcrow]

Does that exclude Kenny G?

what's next?

[joejoejoejoe]

A device that can extract 1000 words from a picture?

practical applications?

[larry bagina]

Yeah, but can you rip a fart on your scanner?

Quick!

[tuxedo-steve]

Someone patent this! We can sue this guy and make millions!

Does this mean scanners are the next Napster...

[saskboy]

Get out the lawyers big bad music companies. There is hell to pay, for this new copyright violating technology.
I can't wait to start ripping my parent's vinyl. I used to listen to it all the time as a kid, and now my Pentium II is finally advanced enough to play 100 year old technology.

bw of a jpq v mp2

[I'm a fscking genius]

does it take more bandwidth to send jpgs or mp3s of your record collection? oops i guess jpg and mp3 *both* have ip issues... I got to switch from mp3 to png... ogg is for pussies

Re:Virile records?

[matthewn]

No no: Kenny G albums would be vile .

Scanned Backward?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you scan it backward, are there satanic messages?

I hate to say it.

[AnalogBoy]

But if they would just pass the headline through MS Word once, 95% of the bitching on slashdot would be either silenced or replaced with bitching about using MS Word to check the spelling of the headline. :)

Re:sorry no mod points

[glitch!]

reminds me also of the trick question "how many grooves on a LP?"

That's two, right? One for each side :-) Except for one album, which had three...

(For the skeptical, it was either Monty Python's Matching Tie and Hankerchief, or New World Record. One side had two different starting points, so you would hear one or the other at random. They converged somewhere in the middle of that side, so the second half was the same.)

Now, who around here remember's Flipper's "Brainwash" single? :-)

show me the code

[wadiwood]

Perhaps this guy could put the code on floppy disk, photocopy it and fax it in.

Or scan the floppy the same way as he scanned the LPs and email the jpg.

Re:Laser Turntable

[bgog]

Did you see the price on these things! The LOW end one is $9500. If the music is only availabe on vynel then for $9500 I'm betting you could get the orignial band to come to your house and play into your computer!

Re:what's next?

[kasperd]

A device that can extract 1000 words from a picture?

Why would anybody want that? We all know, that a picture is worth more than 1000 words.

Billy Idol could be improved

[avoisin]

However, allowing the Billy Idol LP's to get scratched up by the glass could really only have a positive effect!

Re:Windows is better for this

[Anonymous Coward]

if Perl and visual basic got in a fight, Perl would kick visual basic's ass

Yeah? Well Triangle Man would swoop in and kick both their asses.

Re:looks possible

[Dagmar d'Surreal]

I hate to LART someone I don't know, but...

This poster has no clue whatsoever. They are either incredibly high, making a joke that simply isn't funny, or incredibly stupid.

Very possibly more than one of the above factors is at work here. ...and the people who foolishly moderated this as INFORMATIVE are almost assuredly being affected by at least two of the above factors.

Factual information to back up my claims, in simple and easy to understand words:

Needle grooves are not just squiggly lines like waveforms in your copy of WinRecord. The groove itself is going to be v-shaped, and can swing the needle both inboard and outboard, as well as rotate it slightly. Even a 2400 dpi scanner is not going to be sufficient to read that kind of subtlety... and let's not forget the other two factors here... the vinyl is both SHINY and BLACK.
When was the last time you tried to scan the cover of a black vinyl three-ring binder? Could you see the naugahyde (sp?) pattern in the scanned result?

Pffft.

Step _away_ from the bong, people.

A Message From Hilary

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you for your assistance in Slashdotting the site referenced in your article. Your actions are no longer required as it is now being DOS'd by the RIAA due to suspicion of copyright infringement.

We have also detected the files: gramophone3.mp3, dneedle1.wav, dneedle2.wav, and dneedle3.wav on Kazaa and are taking appropriate action to shut down Kazaa or, failing that, the Internet.

Furthermore, we shall be prosecuting the site owner under the DMCA for using a scanner to bypass the "Grooves Encoded for Diamond Needle Recovery Only" copy protection mechanism (Cactus Data Shield, version 0.1 beta). Slashdot.com is also being investigated for ancillary violations of the DMCA by providing a link to the illegal information.

Please remember that only outlaws digitally process music.

Yours lovingly,

Hilary Rosen
Chief Enforcer, RIAA

Re:sorry no mod points

[The_dev0]

It may not be the whole record, but that is exactly what my record player does... player does... player does... player does... player does...

Re:screw that...

[plumby]

BUt it's analog. Wouldn't that be covered by the AMCA?

Re:Of course it's a hoax

[capnjack41]

But look at the really convincing [huji.ac.il] drawings he made, while in the development phase of his record scanning software. They're highly scientifical.

Version 2.0b (video version)

[Rutje]

I got hand of the software. Adjusted it a bit so it also works with a digital video cam. I place the cam above my turntable and it converts the video signal in realtime to audio. Even scratching works!

Re:Yeah right

[Keick]

Well, he posted his code, so please tell us what you think.

Let's apply Occam's Razor again:

1) You really wanted some code to pour over to see if this guy was legit.

2) You wanted to some quick karma by immediately discrediting his work with no intention to do anything else.

Re:My Dual Turntable sounds much better.

[tswinzig]

Besides I would not stick any of my 12 maxi singles of 1980s Billy Idol in the scanner to be scraped against the glass. ;).

Yes, apparantly scraping them with a small diamond is the limit of your tolerance level.