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by Animats 3728 days ago
Of course, the real way to do this is to optically scan the record and simulate a stylus tracking it. The Library of Congress does this.[1] They've even recovered records broken into pieces, by scanning the pieces and reassembling the 3D model.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/how-a-...

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There doesn't seem to be any free or commercial software that converts high res scans of vinyl records to high quality digital audio. I remember this post from 2002 http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html where a guy posts his results with this approach, but the quality is bad and he doesn't provide source code.
>the real way to do this

What's "real" about it? The overwhelming majority of people doing it who are not Libraries do it with a needle.