Re: [MacGroup] cassette tapes into Computer

2008-07-26 Thread Neal Hammon
Marta: If you are going to use Spin Doctor on Roxio Toast, I would suggest that you start with a short recording- maybe just a single song of three minutes or so, rather than the entire cassette. After you get the knack of recording and filtering something not too time consuming, you will

Re: [MacGroup] cassette tapes into Computer

2008-07-26 Thread Neal Hammon
Marta: If you are going to use Spin Doctor on Roxio Toast, I would suggest that you start with a short recording- maybe just a single song of three minutes or so, rather than the entire cassette. After you get the knack of recording and filtering something not too time consuming, you will

Re: [MacGroup] cassette tapes into Computer

2008-07-26 Thread Marta Edie
I do have Roxio Toast, so as soon as I get back my , oh so needed balance, then I shall try that, probably with the help of the Lord above and you all standing by, since inputs and outputs sometime look the same to me. But I shall perservere! Hi o, hi o, hi o! It will be a bit later, though ,

Re: [MacGroup] cassette tapes into Computer

2008-07-26 Thread Neal Hammon
Regarding taking a cassette and transferring it into a computer; this is duck soup with Roxio Toast and spin doctor. I do it all the time, but there are no short cuts. It takes an hour plus to record an hour. With Spin Doctor (it comes with Toast) you first put the cassette on a cassette pla

Re: [MacGroup] cassette tapes into Computer

2008-07-26 Thread Nelsn Helm
If you run the signal thru a speaker into a microfone, you will not like the result. Instead run a wire from audio out, or speaker ports to an audio in or microfone port. I have seen it done with Audacity, a free program, but transferring an hour took an hour, and plan on spending time reading

Re: [MacGroup] cassette tapes into Computer

2008-07-26 Thread Marta Edie
I do have an iMic and also final Vinyl in my computer. I just thought this to be only for old records, not for cassettes .My cassette "thing" in order to play,needs to be connected to a radio or other device, but I also have a number of players that play cassettes as well as CDs, and I even

Re: [MacGroup] cassette tapes into Computer

2008-07-26 Thread Bill Micou
Here are some discussions about how to do it: http://music.macsales.com/read.php?f=2&i=181&t=181 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=312471 Here is a step-by-step tutorial about how to do it: http://www.macinstruct.com/node/131 and the $150.00 solution: http://www.smithgear.com/ion-t

[MacGroup] cassette tapes into Computer

2008-07-26 Thread Marta Edie
Does anybody know how I could transfer the contents of some of my old cassette tapes into the computer and then burn CDs or even turn them into CDs by some other magical device? Marta ___ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be Septemb