Turning old music into digital

With all the talk of MP3 and digital formats, it is easy to forget that music started off as analogue, on records. Chris Long shows how you can drag those magic vinyl masterpieces into the digital age.

It was not that long ago that the only music storage format of any worth was the record. Until the early 1990s we bought LPs and singles in their millions and it looked for all the world like there would never be a change.

But ultimately the domination of digital technology relegated our vinyl recordings to the "stuff we used to have in the good old days" section of the great history book in the sky...(more...)