A service to digitize your vinyl records
A service to digitize your vinyl records
What advice do you have to help me grow my idea?
Idea Description
Convert vinyl to CDs/MP3s. There is a large segment of the population (record owners) who'd love to hear their music on Ipods but don't want to spend $.99 per song to do so.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
Build out web site (burningvinyl.com)
advertise (wom plus other)
upgrade audio equipment
Vote for it now.
http://www.duplicats.net
btw, I've been mulling a device that is complementary to this, if you're into vinyl. I (along with many indie record store owners) believe analog is set for a huge resurgence as vinyl sales are steadily on the rise. Ping me if you're interested.
Isn't very cost-effective. A few companies tried this several years ago and, to my knowledge, none exist now. Pricing - If target consumers are those who are unwilling to pay $0.99 a track, how would you price this service so that they would be engaged? Competing technologies - Target consumers are likely tech-savvy audiophiles (tech b/c they want to digitize content, audiophiles b/c they listen to vinyl) - these people probably already discovered USB-connected turntables, or (like me), plug their turntable into soundcard using RCA inputs, thus enabling to convert themselves. Labor-intensive - Unless a special device is manufactured, encoding vinyl requires service to manually place & flip records, then cut large WAV to tracks, then encode metadata for each track. Unautomated, p…morerocess requires a lot of man-hours per album.
I like the idea. Maybe if you go to a photo shop that offers turning your old photos into cd's, you could sign on as an auxillary partner. Suggest you start off locally to try it out. Then get a large van, rv, pull behind storage storage uniit or something to work out of. Advertise in advance where you will be, your sevices, and prices, and do the job on the spot. That cuts down on handling the records. Electricty might be a sticking point, but I am sure that can be arranged.
Good point. We'd also ship overnight - ala Zappos.com
Shipping is a potential issue -- vinyl owners tend to be VERY picky about their LPs and those LPs are quite fragile. Can you imagine what would happen if they ended up in a postal warehouse in Tucson or Phoenix in the middle of the summer? You might want to spend some time working out a viable shipping container and then, instead of marketing this as a saving (less than 99 cents) service, market it as a luxury service for audiophiles.