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| 120397 | 2003-02-11 23:12:00 | Is there a way I can transfer analogue tape recordings to CD-R through my desktop PC ? | spoonz (3150) | ||
| 120398 | 2003-02-11 23:30:00 | If there is a will there is a way. You will need to have a couple of RCA's coming out of your stereo, this RCA cable will need a 3.5mm stereo plug at the other end, put this into your line-in hole on your soundcard. Open up a recording programme, soundforge, cooledit are a couple. save the recordings as a wav, with reasonable high quality, 44100 bits 16bit channels should do the trick. This will use about 10MB per minute of recording (so make sure you have disk space) so press record on the computer and play on the stereo and tada it's done. YOu can then burn these wav's to the CD using a prog such as nero, (don't save them to CD as data files, rather as an audio CD) |
roofus (483) | ||
| 120399 | 2003-02-12 20:59:00 | Many thanks for the advice Roofus - & the philosophical reminder !! | spoonz (3150) | ||
| 120400 | 2003-02-13 20:15:00 | Have just been having a go at doing this myself with varying degrees of success at this experimental stage . roofus, can you tell me if it makes any difference to the quality of results what recording program is used? I have tried GoldWave but must have done it wrong because for some reason one 2½ minute song took up over 1GIG as a . wav file! :O Will not even be able to put that on a CD . :p Tried CDex recorder next and the results appear to be much better with a 42,577kb . wav file this time . The only problem with CDex is that there are no pretty flashing graphs to indicate when the song starts and ends so I have to listen hard to judge when to press start and stop . I am not after anything very fancy and certainly not complicated -- I just want something that will get the music onto the hard drive the easiest way possible . So can I use anything that does the job or will the sound quality vary between programs? |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 120401 | 2003-02-13 20:28:00 | It all depends on what bitrate you save it as. In GoldWave, its just under the Filename.... Try 8bit, or, if you're working from your beast, then encoding it as an MP3 should take about 15seconds :D Go for: Mpeg Layer 3 44100hz 192Kbps You should end up at about 6 megs per song! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 120402 | 2003-02-13 20:43:00 | Hi Susan B, I use this program for recording my LP's onto CD. www.homepages.hetnet.nl |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 120403 | 2003-02-13 20:45:00 | As Chill says, Susan, it does very much depend on bit rate. I get a feeling that there is a tendency to overdo things. If you're not playing back on super hi-fi, or the source is not super hi-fi, then the lowest rate you are happy to listen to is better. One advantage of living in a 1929 78rpm mono time warp (I mainly use Real Audio and Real Encoder) is that a 3 minute record side only takes up 500KB or less. Roughly I can record 10 hours of streaming audio in about a 150 MB file, and the Real Audio playback bit rate is usually 32Kbps, but even about 22Kbps is ok for low-fi. Likewise the corresponding wav files are smaller if I go that way. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 120404 | 2003-02-13 20:54:00 | What do you use to encode to RA? I used to use RealProducer, but lost my setup file... !?! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 120405 | 2003-02-13 20:58:00 | I think I know where I was going wrong -- I did not realise that I was choosing the wrong bit rate during the Save of the wave file and that is why the file was so large . Very much agree with you Terry . I do not intend to go overboard, it will be wasted on me anyway, but what I really want to know is whether ALL recording programs give the same quality result at the same settings, eg 44100 bits 16bit channel . I cannot see why not but then I know very little about this sort of thing . CYaBro: thanks for that link, I will have a look at that one . :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 120406 | 2003-02-13 20:59:00 | Chill, I use Real Encoder 5.1, I think it can still be downloaded free if you search for it. Real Producer, it seemed to me started to get all hyped up. The version I use is very simple to use give a good range of bit rates, but it will lack features of the later versions which may be useful for web sites, but I only use it as a plain vanilla audio encoder. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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