Sound Recording

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I need a program that I can use to save all my old music cassettes
as MP3 files - via the line input on my audio card. I have tried a few,
but they are either very amateur (only saving wav files) or I end
up having my computer infested with adware.

Any advice, folks?
 
Johnie said:
I need a program that I can use to save all my old music cassettes
as MP3 files - via the line input on my audio card. I have tried a
few, but they are either very amateur (only saving wav files) or I
end up having my computer infested with adware.

Any advice, folks?
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See...

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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Recording to waves is not "amateur". It is far and away the best way to
record because those waves can be edited - hiss removed, beginning/trailing
silence chopped - before encoding to MP3. The recordings _will_ need
editing (unless you have a tin ear) and there is no way to directly edit
MP3s to any extent.

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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
____________________________
 
I need a program that I can use to save all my old music cassettes
as MP3 files - via the line input on my audio card. I have tried a few,
but they are either very amateur (only saving wav files) or I end
up having my computer infested with adware.
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Recording a wav is better than MP3 as you don't loose the quality with the
compression of an mp3.

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/


Or have a look here
http://quantum.it-mate.co.uk/freeware/audioedit.htm


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Bebop & Rocksteady said:
Recording a wav is better than MP3 as you don't loose the quality with the
compression of an mp3.

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Or have a look here
http://quantum.it-mate.co.uk/freeware/audioedit.htm
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FORT Freeware: http://freeware.quantum.2ya.com
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DATA Solutions: http://datasolutions.quantum.2ya.com

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I agree that compressing a music file with MP3 will lose some
of the quality, but I was after a program that had MP3 as an
option without having to use another prog. for conversion.

"Audacity" seems just what I want - at least for the time being!
Thanks a lot for your reply.

Johnie.
 
dadiOH said:
Recording to waves is not "amateur". It is far and away the best way to
record because those waves can be edited - hiss removed, beginning/trailing
silence chopped - before encoding to MP3. The recordings _will_ need
editing (unless you have a tin ear) and there is no way to directly edit
MP3s to any extent.
Click to expand...

Point taken, dadiOH ! Thanks for your advice, I am reading your help file.
Regards
Johnie.
 
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