Hey, I just hope it helps! Having done several cassettes onto the computer, what is fun is making tracks for different things on the cassettes, because on a cassette the operator has to rewind or fast forward the tape to sections, where if you're doing an audio cd you can make tracks for not only sides of the cassette, but for changes in locale, activity, whatever. :)
Curtis Delzer At 11:29 AM 8/13/2008, you wrote: >Hi, >Thank you for the explanation. >Vinny >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Curtis Delzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:10 AM >Subject: Re: How to get the most material onto a standard cd UsingGoldwave >and premier cd creator. > > > > Whatever you use, Gold Wave, Sound Forge, Studio Recorder, a CD can > > hold up to 80 minutes of data, audio data, which equals about 703 > > megabytes, so if your cassettes are, as you say, 72 minutes in > > length, it should work fine, since you'll have 7 plus minutes left > > over. If you wish to put analog audio on a cd, you won't make it any > > format before recording except *.wav since you'll tell the cd burning > > package you use to make the audio for you. (Nero, easy_CDA_creator, > > Roxio, premier cd Creator, (whatever)), make them into just straight > > audio sound which a normal cd player handles. If you put *.mp3 files > > or any compressed format as data onto a cd, the cds will handle a > > great deal more subjective time of 80 minutes, ten times that easily, > > but a specialized cd player will be needed to play them which are, as > > you know, readily available. > > Gold wave makes the *.wav files, I'd suggest one per track of the > > newly created cd, and then you can either make GoldWave burn the cd, > > or another package which specialty is, burning audio cds, including > > one I use called "Acoustica cd burner," or Nero. Changing the > > sampling rate from 16Bit to 24Bit will not change a length or make it > > possible to fit more, it will not do anything to the already recorded > > audio. > > Newly recorded audio, meaning not a copy of a cassette, certainly, > > the higher sampling rates take up more room, not less, 8Khz, 16Khz, > > 24Khz, 32Khz, etc but you're making a copy, not a new recording. > > "Sampling rate," is a quality capability, not a compression or "fit > > more" capability into a space, that is when making mp3s at different > > rates of compression, e.g. 32K 40K 64K 128K 256K etc. Higher > > "compression" rates of 32K compared to 256K take up less room, but > > the K, mentioned here, is a different standard of handling audio than > > the K mentioned in "sampling" rate. > > I hope this gives you a glimmering. What you can do is this; after > > the recording onto cds is done, you can save all tracks on your > > computer, later, as *.mp3 or *.ogg or ... there are many possible > > compress formats, and if not in stereo, you can save them in mono at > > 64K bit rate, and will have no degradation, since cassettes will not > > go as high as 16Khz on the high end anyway unless there is > > specialized recording methods taken and the material contains a lot > > of 16Khz energy which is extremely unlikely considering the sources > > you're talking about. You can then make, if needed, more copies of > > the material onto straight audio cds, using one of the above > > mentioned packages, who will convert, on the fly, most compressed > > formats right back into audio format for you. When recording, since > > these are kids in different circumstances of excitement, play, calm, > > etc. you will probably also wish to make sure clipping does not > > happen, so record at a relatively low level, and then normalize > > afterwards so the computer can handle the optimal level for you after > > the initial recording is done. > > > > Curtis Delzer > > > > At 08:13 AM 8/13/2008, you wrote: > >>Hi, > >> I have never done the following proceedure before, and could use > >>suggestions. I have been asked to copy quite a number of cassettes of > >>greatly varying lengths to be preserved onto cds. These cassettes are old > >>family cassettes of kids singing and talking etc. Because the amount of > >>material on each cassette varies from 7 minutes, to at least 30 minutes, I > >>want to copy them consecutively. I will be using Goldwave. These cds > >>should be able to be played on any cd player, so not an mp3 formate for > >>now. > >> So, if I change the byt rate, from 16 to 24, can I squeze more onto a > >>cd? With premier cd Creator, when I put a new cd into the computer, it > >>will > >>tell me I have 703 megabytes free. I have been able to put about 72 > >>minutes > >>of material onto a cassette. Is there any way I could squeze a few > >>minutes > >>more onto each cd without having to go to mp3 format? 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