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there are a whole bunch of mehalchim. which is the fastest way that is free?
eli lev-
Mrs. Try has dozens of cassettes from the 80’s
The following is based on my experiences:
Prerequisites-
A stereo patch cord (can be purchased at Radio Shack)
A computer with a stereo sound card
I have a software package from Nero which I use in video editing and includes a .wav editor as well.
Start the program, plug the patch cord into the cassette player and the sound card and turn the volume up as high as it can go without distortion.
The better the cassette player, the less the tape “hiss” that will need to be corrected later.
After an entire side has been captured the work begins.
There is a graph displaying audio level within the recorded side.
Select a portion that is between songs.
Ideally that portion would be totally silent, but it probably contains some “hiss”.
Hilight that portion, and set the program to “clean up” the sound found there from the entire file.
This process may need to be repeated.
Don’t overdo it or you will deaden the sound.
Now you can break up the large file into the individual songs.
Once this is done there are many free programs that will convert the .wav files to .mp3 format, for loading to your ipod, burning to cd and so on.
There are programs that will automate the entire process, but I am skeptical that they can produce as good an mp3 as doing it yourself.
thanks
thanks but i dont have that software.
please try again, mrs try. thanks
if you are technologically fluent, here are instructions:
http://www.sticksite.com/tape2cd/index.html
otherwise, here goes. no way is truly free. the cost will be minimal to expensive, depending on the quality and ease for which you want to get to your objective, moving data from cassette to mp3 format.
there are 4 things needed to make a transfer.
1. device to read cassette.
2. way for data to transmit to computer.
3. computer.
4. software to encode raw data into mp3 format.
now they sell devices like these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/digital-conversion/85fb/
that will do it all for you! they are about $65, and come with all youll need.
then there is the cheaper way, but not free. understand that quality here will be lost. you will need a tape recorder that has the capacity to transmit sound out, meaning it will need a speaker or headphone jack. you will need to purchase a cable that transmits sound, as in a two ended sound cable, similar to what comes with some flat screen lcd monitors that have built in speakers. you will also need a sound card that has an input jack. some motherboards come with them, especially higher end ones. if you don’t have one, one must be purchased. you will connect the output on the cassette player to the input on the sound card (on-board or through and expansion slot.)
now comes the tricky part. getting the sound recorded. there are plenty of software suites out there, and the ones that really wok well, and can enhance the music to the point where all that was lost int eh transfer is almost reattained cost money.
now my suggestion is, since most of the people here are not technophobes, and these ways are pretty technologically advanced, would be to purchase a device like the Crosley Songwriter (http://www.valleyseek.com/product.action?itemID=21283) which range from about 150 and up. it will move all music, records, lp’s, some even will do 8 tracks. they are really easy to use, and make the process a million times easier.
hope this helps.
eli lev-
I suggest you google “cassette to mp3”.
The hardware prerequisites will remain the same.
There are many software packages, free, shareware and commercial, that will have the same approximate functionality.
If the number of steps is intimidating you may want to get something that does it all for you (breaks up the songs and creates the MP3s).
This is a common task, and you will find lots of “how to” advice out there.
thanks very much
someone just gave me a wonderful idea that works .
what you need
1.A cassette adapter that has one of those cords coming out[ used for old cars to play cds or ipods through the cassette player.]]
2.this isn`t cheep but look on ebay. a tape duplicator. it copies tapes at 16x the speed.
3. a program like goldwave.
what you do
1. put in the original side of the duplicator your priginal tape.
2. put in the copy side you adapter matzav.
3. set the bit sampling rate on golwave as high as possable.
4.plug adapter into soundcard.
5. start copying.
7. slow it down by 16x.
this isn’t that good for music but is deffenatlly good for shiurim. like the tags say
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