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Cassettes
This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music
that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ? |
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Bob H wrote:
This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ? You hit the nail on the head when you stated 'play them' ! You need to record them into your computer using something like a WAV recorder/editor which saves each recording as a file which you can then trim, and store in a folder on your computer ready for burning. Richard. |
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You probably want a NG such as comp.periphs.cdr
Any decent wave editor (ie Goldwave, Nero 5.5 or above with the $ plug in, Realplayer +, many more) will allow you to record via your line input to a wave file or mp3, and then burn it to a CD. -- Jan Alter or "Richard Brooks" wrote in message ... Bob H wrote: This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ? You hit the nail on the head when you stated 'play them' ! You need to record them into your computer using something like a WAV recorder/editor which saves each recording as a file which you can then trim, and store in a folder on your computer ready for burning. Richard. |
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"Bob H" wrote in message
... This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ? If you have WindowsXP, then you might want to look at Plus!DME which includes an analog recorder. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/dme/dmehome.asp (PhotoStory is also definitely worth having.) You should be able to find it at your local PC store. -- Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware) www.coribright.com |
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Also try alt.music.mp3 It has always been possible use windows sound recorder (if you use the kludge to get around the 60 second limit) to record, but this is kind of crude. Most full versions of CD writer software include audio recorders and editors. I have an old version of Adaptec (now Roxio) Easy CD Creator, which is not very good, and a not so old version of WinOnCD (which ,alas, has also been gobbled up by Roxio), which has much better noise filters. You can get free software for various editing functions, e.g. I use MP3Workshop to normalize to a mean level, which is much better than normalizing to a maximum level as most applications do. Jan Alter wrote: You probably want a NG such as comp.periphs.cdr Any decent wave editor (ie Goldwave, Nero 5.5 or above with the $ plug in, Realplayer +, many more) will allow you to record via your line input to a wave file or mp3, and then burn it to a CD. -- Jan Alter or "Richard Brooks" wrote in message ... Bob H wrote: This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ? You hit the nail on the head when you stated 'play them' ! You need to record them into your computer using something like a WAV recorder/editor which saves each recording as a file which you can then trim, and store in a folder on your computer ready for burning. Richard. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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You need to have a program like Cooledit or Goldwave to record them on and
then save them as waves then you can either play the waves or compress the waves into mp3s and play the mp3s. Cooledit is the best program but you have a limited trial period. There are other programs that you can use indefinitely. In these programs you can edit the sound like cutting out parts, adding reverb or effects, increasing the volume or cleaning up noise. "Bob H" wrote in message ... This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ? |
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"Richard Brooks" wrote in message ... Bob H wrote: This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ? You hit the nail on the head when you stated 'play them' ! You need to record them into your computer using something like a WAV recorder/editor which saves each recording as a file which you can then trim, and store in a folder on your computer ready for burning. Richard. You also should know that if you just record the whole tape at once and then burn a CD using that file, the music on the CD will be one long track. If you want to be able to select which song you want to hear from the CD, you need to record each song from the tape as a separate file and then gather all the files and burn them to CD. It's a little more labor intensive but worth it in the long run. Bearman |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:48:37 -0600, "bearman" wrote:
You also should know that if you just record the whole tape at once and then burn a CD using that file, the music on the CD will be one long track. If you want to be able to select which song you want to hear from the CD, you need to record each song from the tape as a separate file and then gather all the files and burn them to CD. It's a little more labor intensive but worth it in the long run. Another option is to record the whole thing then use an editor to select each track and save 'em. |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:48:37 -0600, "bearman" wrote: You also should know that if you just record the whole tape at once and then burn a CD using that file, the music on the CD will be one long track. If you want to be able to select which song you want to hear from the CD, you need to record each song from the tape as a separate file and then gather all the files and burn them to CD. It's a little more labor intensive but worth it in the long run. Another option is to record the whole thing then use an editor to select each track and save 'em. That certainly works as well. But I've found that unless I stop the tape and keep the recorder running (to make a longer period of silence than the two or three seconds between songs), I have a hard time finding the end of one song and the beginning of the next. Seems like I spend more time doing that than just recording one song at a time. But, to each his own. Bearman |
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:52:57 -0400, "Bob H" wrote: This is off topic but I'm looking for help in saving audio cassette music that I can burn onto CD's. I can play them via Line In on my sound card but not having luck in finding and saving them. Can someone recommend a group where I might find some help ? Get the Simple MP3 recorder and you can do all the following: Convert CD to MP# CD to WAV Encode WAV to MP3 Decode MP3 to WAV record to WAV When recording is going on press pause button for a few seconds so that there is a long gap between songs making it easier to split the full tape into individual songs. Simple.zip also contains a MP3 player that has a playlist and an equalizer with several presets. -- Sandy Archer Reply to newsgroups only |
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