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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 ?
 
Bob said:
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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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 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.
 
Bob H said:
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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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Richard Brooks said:
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 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
 
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.
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Another option is to record the whole thing then use an editor to select
each track and save 'em.
 
kony said:
Another option is to record the whole thing then use an editor to select
each track and save 'em.
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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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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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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.
 
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