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| 1232006 | 2011-09-18 02:09:00 | SWMBO recently cane across the attached ad. I presume it works, but I'm a bit dubious about the quality. Is there another way of doing it? We've only got laptops so does that mean there's no way to hook them up to our sound system? To be honest, this is the first time I've considered transferring cassettes so I'm operating pretty much in the dark All suggestions (preferably cheap) welcome Thanks |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1232007 | 2011-09-18 02:44:00 | All you need is ANY tape playing device with a line out (presumably you already have one), a line in on your PC (presumably you already have one - may be labeled MIC IN), a suitable cable to connect the two (~$10) and some (free) software to record / split / encode it (Audacity etc). That just looks like a fairly expensive (and ugly) tape deck. It probably comes with some "easy to use" software which may or may not do the job to your liking. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1232008 | 2011-09-18 03:43:00 | Rip Vinyl works good. If you set it up right it will separate all the tracks too |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1232009 | 2011-09-18 04:14:00 | Try Music Match (Jukebox) (musicmatch-jukebox.com/), It used to auto split the tracks, and can create tags (info about the track). If you have dozens of tracks you may want an organizer, like Media Monkey (http:) or the free version of The Godfather (www.free-codecs.com). Best to have good quality music tapes, otherwise sometimes can spend a long time doing reverb, noise removal, boosting, filtering, etc with Audacity or the more advanced Cool Edit Pro 2 (www.softpedia.com) (Adobe Audition). You can buy hand held USB tape cassette to mp3 encoders/converters at Fish Pond NZ. Also depending on your stereo outputs, you may need single/twin adapters for RCA to 3.5 mm plugs amongst others. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1232010 | 2011-09-18 04:18:00 | ... or just find the title online ...:blush: Did you already pay for the content or just the bits of plastic it originally arrived on? :devil |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1232011 | 2011-09-18 05:47:00 | + 2 for Audacity | R.M. (561) | ||
| 1232012 | 2011-09-18 07:17:00 | ... or just find the title online ... :blush: Did you already pay for the content or just the bits of plastic it originally arrived on? :devil Yep - these are legitimately, shop bought,commercially produced Music Cassettes.. |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1232013 | 2011-09-18 20:32:00 | Just the downloading part that could be ?? | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1232014 | 2011-09-18 21:50:00 | Just the downloading part that could be ?? ???? I don't understand? |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1232015 | 2011-09-18 21:52:00 | Yeah just connect a tape deck to your pc and use some of the software suggested above. One thing in favour of cassettes is the tape noise is very predictable so software can remove it very effectively. I've done a couple a long time ago using windows sound recorder and nero wave editor (from nero 6) and was very happy with the results. I just sampled a section of the "silent" lead in as a noise profile and then selected the whole recording and removed it. The result sounds very good. I used a crappy worn out old el-cheapo walkman and still got good results :) |
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