Vinyl brought to the iPod

Landmark London store Selfridges has launched a new service to transfer vinyl record tracks onto the iPod.

It is expected to be popular with music lovers who favour the classics from decades ago but want to bring their music collections into line with the modern age.

For added authenticity, the SpeedPod service will even include the old-time crackles created by the record players.

Kristina Rate, managing director, said: "There are two groups of people who have vinyl collections, those who bought albums 'the first time around' but started buying CDs, resigning their albums to the shelf and those who now buy vinyl to DJ with.

"Either way, with both groups, there's a lot of vinyl lying around that never gets played."

Selfridges is also offering a vinyl cleaning service and the option of noise reduction when transferring tracks.

Located in London's famous shopping thoroughfare, Oxford Street, the Selfridges service starts from today.