Copy talking from cassette to PC (then to CD)

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I want to copy some lectures from cassette to my PC so I can end up
putting it on CD.
What software do people in this NG recommend. It would be handy to be
able to put a "table of contents" so i can find different parts of the
lecture(s) by pressing the >> button the CD.
Ideas anyone...?
 
I want to copy some lectures from cassette to my PC so I can end up
putting it on CD.
What software do people in this NG recommend. It would be handy to be
able to put a "table of contents" so i can find different parts of the
lecture(s) by pressing the >> button the CD.
Ideas anyone...?
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If you know of one that can also edit out background road noise, I'd
like to hear about that too. Preferably freeware, but in my case
a demand for some small contribution wouldn't necessarily put me off
an otherwise reasonable solution. (The CD "TOC" function mentioned
by the OP is not of much interest to me for my present purpose.)


Cheers, Phred.
 
©® said:
I want to copy some lectures from cassette to my PC so I can end up
putting it on CD.
What software do people in this NG recommend. It would be handy to be
able to put a "table of contents" so i can find different parts of the
lecture(s) by pressing the >> button the CD.
Ideas anyone...?
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For transferring your cassettes to audio files that you can than burn to CD
I'd recommend Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
it's a very good wave editor with a number of fx that you will be able to
use to clean up the recordings should this be necessary. Not sure about a
freeware CD-Writing program though.

hth

coma
 
What hardware would I need to copy from cassette to PC?
Have CD writer on PC already and have a sound-system - just don't know
how I get the cassette contents to PC.
Thanks
 
©® said:
What hardware would I need to copy from cassette to PC?
Have CD writer on PC already and have a sound-system - just don't know
how I get the cassette contents to PC.
Thanks
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You'll need a cassette player, of course, and a cable to connect the line
out of the cassette player to your PC's sound card, and a program,
Audacity?, to record the sound as it's played by the cassette player. Once
you have recorded the entire cassette to a .wav file, use some form of
compression, and for voice you won't need stereo or the highest quality as
the file can get quite large, you'll need to break it up into seperate
tracks. The tracks should be such that your TOC items will point to each
seperate track.
Hope this helps
HK
 
©® said:
What hardware would I need to copy from cassette to PC?
Have CD writer on PC already and have a sound-system - just don't know
how I get the cassette contents to PC.
Thanks
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The only hardware needed is an audio cable -> output from the cassette
deck to the PC input jack. Direct connection works for tape (for vinyl
you need output from an amplifier).

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©® said:
What hardware would I need to copy from cassette to PC?
Have CD writer on PC already and have a sound-system - just don't
know how I get the cassette contents to PC.
Thanks
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dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
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H-Man said:
You'll need a cassette player, of course, and a cable to connect the line
out of the cassette player to your PC's sound card, and a program,
Audacity?, to record the sound as it's played by the cassette player. Once
you have recorded the entire cassette to a .wav file, use some form of
compression, and for voice you won't need stereo or the highest quality as
the file can get quite large, you'll need to break it up into seperate
tracks. The tracks should be such that your TOC items will point to each
seperate track.
Hope this helps
HK
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Yes, Audacity can do al the above

coma
 
H-Man said:
You'll need a cassette player, of course, and a cable to connect the
line out of the cassette player to your PC's sound card, and a
program, Audacity?, to record the sound as it's played by the
cassette player. Once you have recorded the entire cassette to a .wav
file, use some form of compression, and for voice you won't need
stereo or the highest quality as the file can get quite large, you'll
need to break it up into seperate tracks. The tracks should be such
that your TOC items will point to each seperate track.
Hope this helps
HK
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Audacity works a treat! Can anyone recommend what settings to use to
compress the files. (At the moment they are in MP3 format).
 
©® said:
Audacity works a treat! Can anyone recommend what settings to use to
compress the files. (At the moment they are in MP3 format).
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You really should do some reading before you jump into something. You ask
what settings to use to compress the files yet you say they are MP3s - which
means they are already compressed.

Are you saying you want to re-encode them? If so, why didn't you just
record to wave, then encode them?

If you are asking what bitrate to use to encode recorded waves of speech the
answer is as low as possible should be good enough.

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dadiOH
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dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
____________________________
 
©® said:
Audacity works a treat! Can anyone recommend what settings to use to
compress the files. (At the moment they are in MP3 format).
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To burn them on to a CD that will play on a regular CD player, you need to
convert the MP3 files into wave files. I don't have Audacity on my machine
at the moment, but if I remeber correctly all you need to do is select
File/Export to Wave (or something similar). If it gives the option of
different bit rates, go for 16 bit, this is "CD quality" sound and you will
be able to burn between 74-80 minutes onto a CD.

hth

coma
 
c_e said:
To burn them on to a CD that will play on a regular CD player, you
need to convert the MP3 files into wave files. I don't have Audacity
on my machine at the moment, but if I remeber correctly all you need
to do is select File/Export to Wave (or something similar). If it
gives the option of different bit rates, go for 16 bit, this is "CD
quality" sound and you will be able to burn between 74-80 minutes
onto a CD.
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Thanks very much!
hth
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Yep - I bever knew about 16bit for CD.
 
I have successfully been able to record (with Audacity) from cassette to
CD now, but one problem is if I leave the room whilst it is recording,
the cassette player may finish playing (and stops) but the recording
keeps going.
Just wondered if there is any plugin (or any other program) that would
allow the recording to stop when the cassette stops.
thanks
 
Are you talking about Audio cassette or video? I assume audio. I have never
really thought about it but I suppose you could just run a lead from the
earphone jack on your device to your sound card and then just record the
input. You could then edit it. Never tried so I dont really know.
 
~~( said:
Are you talking about Audio cassette or video? I assume audio. I have
never really thought about it but I suppose you could just run a lead
from the earphone jack on your device to your sound card and then
just record the input. You could then edit it. Never tried so I dont
really know. "Phred"
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Yeah - that is just what I did and it works great with Audacity.
 
©® said:
I have successfully been able to record (with Audacity) from cassette to
CD now, but one problem is if I leave the room whilst it is recording,
the cassette player may finish playing (and stops) but the recording
keeps going.
Just wondered if there is any plugin (or any other program) that would
allow the recording to stop when the cassette stops.
thanks
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I am using Messer (http://www.dago.pmp.com.pl/messer/) for this purpose. It stops automatically
after a silence period. The length of the period as well as the noise level can be adjusted. I
recorded my tapes succesfully while I was asleep...

Zwerfkat
 
~~(,, ,,)°» wrote (partly in response to me and another person):

Yeah - that is just what I did and it works great with Audacity.
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Did you make any attempt to "clean up" the sound with Audacity
(i.e. remove background noise)? If so, was it a useful exercise?


Cheers, Phred.
 
Phred said:
Did you make any attempt to "clean up" the sound with Audacity
(i.e. remove background noise)? If so, was it a useful exercise?


Cheers, Phred.
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Er...no - because I didn't know what to select. Suggestions to help a
newbie (who is very happy to have lectures off of audio tape and onto
PC).
Still have to put it on CD.
 
©® said:
Er...no - because I didn't know what to select. Suggestions to help a
newbie (who is very happy to have lectures off of audio tape and onto
PC).
Still have to put it on CD.
Click to expand...
I dpn't have Audacity on my computer at present, but from what I remember
there is a tool in the "Effects" menu for this. Look for something along the
lines of "noise reduction" in the list of effects.

If you can't find the help you need on this newsgroup then there is an
Audacity mailing list that is very friendly and knowledgeable - I'm sure
they will be able to help with any questions. Here's the url to join:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-users

coma
 
I dpn't have Audacity on my computer at present, but from what I remember
there is a tool in the "Effects" menu for this. Look for something along the
lines of "noise reduction" in the list of effects.

If you can't find the help you need on this newsgroup then there is an
Audacity mailing list that is very friendly and knowledgeable - I'm sure
they will be able to help with any questions. Here's the url to join:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-users
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Thanks for the pointer mate. Could be useful.


Cheers, Phred.
 
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