How well does the vinyl hold up?

[dobyblue]

You know the Asus board I have in my PC is pretty sweet and I'm sure I could back-up my vinyl to 24-bit/192khz .flac files as it supports 8-channel audio at 24/192 PCM, dts-ma, DDTrueHD, as well as 1080p24 and 1080p60 through the built-in HDMI ports and analog inputs/outputs.

However I also note that there are vinyl rips through particular sites I use that I won't go into detail about that are done with set-ups far greater than mine. No doubt I can't find every record I own on there, but so far I'm comfortable enough with the way I look after my vinyl that I'm not worried about backing it up. Of course now I'm just sticking my nose up at karma and next week I'll probably accidentally drop a record on the floor that's super rare and scratch the crap out of it...at which point I may consider my stance.



On the topic of .flac - you would need to have a program that captures the audio input and set it up how you want it (24-bit/96kHz would likely be the lowest you'd want to go with vinyl) and then you'd simply take those .wav files and use FLAC Frontend to convert to .flac - I'm not aware of any program that would capture input directly to FLAC, but FLAC is lossless and so is your original .wav capture so it shouldn't matter.