Time to look up the Silicon Chip web site I think, http://www.siliconchip.com.au
On 12/03/2009, at 7:28 PM, Peter Scanlon wrote:
Looking for info on a cassette player that can connect via USB to
computer, and available in Australia?
Any info please.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Stewart" <paga...@wi.rr.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: converting from 4 track to cd
I use a Sound Blaster Live. Sound Blaster Gold is a better one.
Just depends on how much the quality matters to you. Not sure
what you mean by "four track". Do you mean Talking Book four track
mono? In this case, nearly anything that is good at all and with
aline input will do. If you're talking about stereo reel to reel
tapes, then you'd probably want a fairly good and quiet card.
There are even USB sound cards that are very good these days. As
for software, my favorite for doing the transfer is Goldwave. Very
accessible and easy to use after getting used to it. You can make
very precise edits with it and you can have a free demo version
that lets you do up to 100 operations per boot session. You can
buy it for $45 U.S. at least that's what I paid for it and don't
think the price has changed. If you don't need the editing
function then CDEX is your choice. It is completely free. Will
record sound to several formats including .wav and mp3. For
burning the CD I prefer Nero but EZ CD DA extractor is also very
good and it can do conversions as well as burn. So you have
several choices and others on this list probably have others as well.
B B
Roger
Lauren wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the info. What kind of a sound card do I need to get
for the 4 track player? What is good but affordable?
What is the most affordable software, easy to use for a blind
person to do the actual transfer so I can have either a .mp3
or .wav file on a CD?
Thanks. It sounds very complicated.
Sincerely,
Lauren
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Stewart" <paga...@wi.rr.com
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Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: converting from 4 track to cd
I do this kind of thing all the time. You need a sound card and
an audio patch cord that will connect between the output of the
cassette machine and the line in of the sound card. To record I
prefer Goldwave as you can not only record, but precisely edit
the beginning and end of each track or segment however you want
the files to be and you can also set the volume level to maximum
without distortion and even do some noise reduction in many
cases. CDex will also record directly in mp3 format and you can
turn on normalization to set the level but there's no editing or
noise reduction features. And you'll also want Nero or other CD
writing software and, of course, a CD-R drive which come with
just about every computer these days to turn the sound files to
CD. If you want audio CDs that will play on any CD player then
you'll want to record the files as .wav instead of mp3 but the
process is the same regardless of what kind of final CD you
want. Mp3 files won't usually play on audio CD players but
should play on DVD players. Hope this helps.
B B
Roger
Lauren wrote:
Hi,
I have a couple of old recordings that were done on a 4-track
cassette machine. Is there a way I can convert that to an audio
cd?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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