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If you have a large collection of music and are over the age of thirty-five, chances are you have a significant number of vinyl records. You may even still have a working record player. You probably also have a collection of CD’s, and even cassettes if they lasted this long. Of course, none of them play on your iPod or other Mp3 player.

You may have gone through the painful process of media conversion before, recording your LP’s onto cassettes that have long since worn out. Or perhaps you bit the bullet and purchased the same albums you had on vinyl in CD form if they were even available. Well, this time, if you do it right, may be the last time you need to think about the various types of media that house your favorite music.

Digital music storage is easily portable, never wears out and likely won’t become obsolete during our lifetimes. CDs are easy to rip into digital format. Most computers will start to automatically copy the music from your CD into digital form when you put the CD in the computer’s CD or DVD drive. Depending upon your software, they may even go search the internet for the artist, album, song titles and other information to automate entry of this information into your music library.

Vinyl albums take a little more effort. There are a number of special digital conversion phonographs that play your records like any normal record player, but which also have a USB out jack that plugs directly into your computer. With these devices you can record your favorite vinyl albums into digital format with relative ease. The down side is that you need to enter the title, track and artist information manually. Once it’s done, though, it’s done forever and you’ll have permanent and portable copies of all your favorite music from back in the day.

Because all this digital conversion is likely to take many hours if your music collection is very large, you’ll want to make sure you make backup copies of all your digital music files. Without a backup copy, you could lose the files if your hard drive or flash media disk fails. Eventually it will. With a backup copy, you just need to load the songs onto your new drive and you’re ready to go. If you don’t have a backup, then you will need to look into the services of a data recovery house. Data recovery services can pull data of failed and damaged digital storage media of all kinds including hard drives, CD-ROMs, and even MP3 players which have either micro hard drives or flash media storage inside.

Once you’ve got all your old vinyl transferred to digital format, you can listen to all your old favorites with any iPod or MP3, and you’ll never have to worry about cleaning off the dust or scratching the record ever again.