Does it have to be that expensive? Why couldn’t you find a decent cassette player (you probably already have one), get an output cable ($4.00 at radio shack), and connect it to the audio input on your desktop PC? There are any number of cheap (and freeware) audio digitizing programs – Audacity comes to mind – that will accept that input and write to the hard drive of your desktop computer.
Your computer probably already has a CD-DVD burner, so there is no cost there. (Although a new burner can be purchased for $25.00). Turn on, plug in, and go away for a while. Yes, it will take some time to do each tape, but at a *far* lower cost than $600.00 for a dedicated machine. Ted From: Andrea Rapp Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:36 PM To: Hasafran Subject: [ha-Safran] What do you do w/ valuable audiocassettes? By valuable I mean lectures of prominent guest speakers, classes taught by the rabbis or by professors who've spoken at the synagogue, scholars-in-residence, and so on. They can be transferred to CD but it is very expensive. The piece of equipment that does this costs approx. $600.00, and paying a service to do it one by one would cost even more than that. Nearly $20.00 per hour of tape. Some say: transfer them to mp3 format, and then burn to CD. Time-consuming and questionable quality. If anyone else has dealt with this issue, please write to me directly. Andrea Rapp Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6589 - Release Date: 08/19/13
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