Cassette to MP3?
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Topic: Cassette to MP3?
Posted By: Bob Greece
Subject: Cassette to MP3?
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 03:24
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Does anybody have any idea how I can record from audio cassette to MP3?
I have a Walkman and I used a cable to connect the headphone output socket on the Walkman to the microphone socket on my computer. I can't hear any sound though on the computer. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 05:30
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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 05:36
Have you checked out that the computer's settings are correct in your Volume control -> Options -> Properties -> Recording?
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Bob Greece wrote:Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 05:39
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You need a line input - your walkman is not a microphone. So: 1. Look for a line input 2. If there is none, open the settings for your soundcard - many onboard chips use one multi-purpose input jack which you can switch between microphone and line-in 3. In the soundcard settings, verify that it is set to use the line input for recording ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 07:28
Thanks Mike. I'll give it a try. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10">
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 07:45
Ah - from cassette tape to MP3... that'll be good quality, then   ------------- 
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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 09:16
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 09:20
| I need to do this as well - I have loads of demo tapes from old bands that I need to transfer to the PC. I'd be interested to know how you get on with this, Bob. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 17:48
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I've had reasonable success in doing this - where I've used metal tapes, that is.
CR02 are OK, but still exhibit some hiss, even with Dolby C switched in - mainly because any noise reduction tends to make the sound dull, and the natural reaction is to try to re-EQ it to brighten the sound a bit. Here's a band demo tape - a "technical thrash" metal band I was in back in 1988 - the source is a plain ferric "super" tape, so it's quite noisy; http://download.yousendit.com/2804EC4C2BD46946 Here's another demo that I made with my first home computer studio setup 10 years later - the source is a metal tape and is nearly perfect. It's a kind of electro-trip hop type thing that I built up using royalty-free samples; http://download.yousendit.com/408BBBA529990222 And here's a recording I made from the radio (on a TDK CR02) - as it's a radio broadcast, it's therefore public domain, so there aren't any copyright issues on this that I know of. There's tons of radio hiss that I only partly got rid of using Dolby NR on the source - but the overall quality isn't bad, the sound is nicely dynamic - especially those pops!; http://download.yousendit.com/EC7EF6C93B298CF4 ***If anyone knows of any Copyright issues, PM me and I'll remove it - but I have done my homework, and I'm pretty sure we're safe.*** All files were recorded into raw wav, edited and converted to mp3 or wma using my tool of choice; Wavepad. The tape source is my 3-head tape deck channeled through my Hi-Fi, which feeds directly into the Line-In on my SB Live! Platinum via RCAs - so nothing particularly hi-tech. ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: October 25 2006 at 02:55
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We record our own band's stuff with Telefunken magnetofone on anykind of casettes we find, and then transfer it to PC by recording wav files with Cool Edit Pro and the editing them further with it. I just play the tapes with my stereos, which have RCA cables connected to PC. |
Posted By: pammiwhammi
Date Posted: October 28 2006 at 21:54
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I use a program called Audacity; it's freeware, multi-track, multi-platform and fairly easy to use once you read the instructions. It can be downloaded here; http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: October 28 2006 at 22:54
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I've done it using Spin Doctor, which is bundled in with Toast Titanium. It works pretty well. There are settings you can use to reduce the noise. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: lobster41
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 16:00
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I recently purchased a product called Inport Deluxe, which includes some software that allows you to edit the file, etc. The final result is a .wav file that needs to be converted to mp3 format. This is easily done with the free Audacity software noted earlier. I purchased the Inport to transfer some of my old albums to CD's and my iPod. It works for cassettes as well. The product works, although the resulting files have the hiss and pops that we loved in our old analog formats. Recommended, although it will put you back about $80US. ------------- The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 16:13
| Just to mention I bought a small device called Videosafe to transfer my old 8mm video tapes to DVD, but I discovered yesterday that if you connect a cassette player to the sound inputs in the device, it will also record from the cassette. I found some great free software called RecordPad Sound Recorder to do the recording and Wavepad to split the MP3 file up into individual tracks. Worked a treat! |