[jyl]

My father has thousands of vinyl LPs - classical, opera, musical, some popular, etc - from the 1950s to now.

Lots of it is NA in digital form.

I'd like to get it in MP3 form.

What is the simplest way for him to digitize his collection? He uses a PC. Is there a dingus he should connect between record player and PC? Or a combo record player-cd burner?

Here's the bigger dilemma. A lot of the cool in LPs of that era is the covers and the liner info. Knowing that this Shastakovich was performed by the Philadelphia Symphony under Ormandy and the musicians include blah blah - that is important. There is no way my dad will type in all that info. I might, but he lives 600 miles away.

What's a good strategy for this meta info? Have him xerox the covers and liners and send to me? Can I then OCR the xeroxes? Or have him photograph and email along w/ the mp3 files? Can I OCR the image files? Or ?

In iTunes, can I easily insert the cover art?

Ideas? This is a project I've wanted to do for a long time.