posted on May 23, 2007 08:00:17 AM new
Does anyone know how to transfer cassette (I have alot of books on tape) to CD or MP3? I believe I need to purchase software, but there are so many, I was wondering if anyone had experience with this. I do not like complicated programs!
posted on May 23, 2007 09:19:03 AM new
Very time consuming and files are large so doing audio books wojuld take lots of time and would have to be split on several cds. You don't have to have software but it would sure help in recording them to right format like mp3 there are programs that will do this and split the mp3 into burnable size files.
I am betting you will NOT like doing this. But it can be easily done just very time consuming. I did a few songs off of some tapes and that was easy enough since songs are about 2.5-4 minutes long. I used MusicMatch Jukebox to record them to MP3 jacked the cassette player into my sound card( line-in) and chose the recording properties to record from line-in, applied sound leveling and had my song. But that was not an audio book. Same thing applies for them but they are long and files would be huge I would think. Problem I find with cassettes is you need to be there when cassette plays towards the end so you can turn off the recording if I remember right.
You will need a 2 ended sterio plug to jacking in the player into your line-in sound card jack. If you don't have lin-in then you could use the microphone plug I think but quality is better with lin-in. Also USE an electric supplied cassette player as batteries will cause the playback to be weird can cause slow recordings and sound draggy...
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posted on May 23, 2007 09:26:01 AM new
As he was leaving the house this morning, my husband said the latest Consumer Reports has tips on how to digitize tapes and records. (Pretty sure he said it was Consumer Reports; I was groggy still, so he might have meant something else. I'll ask later.)
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posted on May 24, 2007 04:58:21 AM new
Download a program called Audacity. It is free and works great. You will need to connect a cable from the lineout of the cassette player to the linein jack on your computer sound card. Record it with Audacity and then export it as an mp3.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
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posted on May 24, 2007 12:45:07 PM new
Tony beat me to my advice... Audacity works great! Plus... I've written a tutorial for it! You're welcome to use it if you'd like. You can download it from:
The link is just to a PDF file. You need to have Acrobat reader installed to view it (which most computers have). Sometimes browsers have plugins that are designed to view the PDF's internally... but they sometimes end up locking up your system instead... So, try right clicking on the link and choose "save link as". Then, just double-click on the file and it should open up in Acrobat.
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