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Ripping Audio Tapes
Re: Ripping Audio Tapes
Take the line out from your tape deck to the line in on your sound
card. Play the tape deck a few times while monitoring the sound to
verify your aren't overdriving the inputs. Then hit record on
Audacity and play on the tape deck. Come back in 45 minutes flip the
tape and hit play again.
Once side 2 is done you will have a big file waiting in memory. You
will have to delete a few songs as 90 minutes won't fit on a 80 minute
CD. After you have trimmed a few songs under File chose export
as .wav(*). Be aware that each tape will take up about 1Gig worth of
space. Exporting as .mp3 will save space but will cost processing
time when burning to an audio CD. At this point close Audacity and
open windows media player and open the file you just created and chose
burn to CD from the File menu item. If your PC doesn't hang on these
big files then repeat the steps 29 more times.
*If your CD player cna play .mp3 CDs then you would be better off
exporting the file as an .mp3 and just buring it to cd as a data file.
Take the line out from your tape deck to the line in on your sound
card. Play the tape deck a few times while monitoring the sound to
verify your aren't overdriving the inputs. Then hit record on
Audacity and play on the tape deck. Come back in 45 minutes flip the
tape and hit play again.
Once side 2 is done you will have a big file waiting in memory. You
will have to delete a few songs as 90 minutes won't fit on a 80 minute
CD. After you have trimmed a few songs under File chose export
as .wav(*). Be aware that each tape will take up about 1Gig worth of
space. Exporting as .mp3 will save space but will cost processing
time when burning to an audio CD. At this point close Audacity and
open windows media player and open the file you just created and chose
burn to CD from the File menu item. If your PC doesn't hang on these
big files then repeat the steps 29 more times.
*If your CD player cna play .mp3 CDs then you would be better off
exporting the file as an .mp3 and just buring it to cd as a data file.
Re: Ripping Audio Tapes
Hi Pan,
I have just recently ripped from pre-recorded tapes directly from the
cassette player to the sound card on the pc using creative
recorder.Then burned them to CD.
I was mildly surprised to hear the music on some (about 150) sounded
great, others(cheap tapes) were low bassy sounding.
As for issues involved, a pc with a cd burner and patience and time.
It took me about a week to record 15 tapes, not all at once, after a
few hours which equaled 2 tapes...you do get tired.
There are plenty of freeware recording software on the web that works
fine. Thats for recording the tape to the pc.
Let me know how you make out.
>Hi,
> I have about 30 audio cassette tapes (C-90)'s. These are
>essentially compilations made over many years from other
>medium (other pre-recorded audio tapes, LP's etc). They
>are all in good condition.
>
> How do I rip these & transfer them to a CD? Are there any
>free software available which will help me with this? Are there
>many issues involved?
>
>
Hi Pan,
I have just recently ripped from pre-recorded tapes directly from the
cassette player to the sound card on the pc using creative
recorder.Then burned them to CD.
I was mildly surprised to hear the music on some (about 150) sounded
great, others(cheap tapes) were low bassy sounding.
As for issues involved, a pc with a cd burner and patience and time.
It took me about a week to record 15 tapes, not all at once, after a
few hours which equaled 2 tapes...you do get tired.
There are plenty of freeware recording software on the web that works
fine. Thats for recording the tape to the pc.
Let me know how you make out.
>Hi,
> I have about 30 audio cassette tapes (C-90)'s. These are
>essentially compilations made over many years from other
>medium (other pre-recorded audio tapes, LP's etc). They
>are all in good condition.
>
> How do I rip these & transfer them to a CD? Are there any
>free software available which will help me with this? Are there
>many issues involved?
>
>
Re: Ripping Audio Tapes
In article <4768a13b.3576906@news.sentex,net >, zeus <zeus@hotmail,com > wrote:
>I have just recently ripped from pre-recorded tapes directly from the
>cassette player to the sound card on the pc using creative
>recorder.Then burned them to CD.
>I was mildly surprised to hear the music on some (about 150) sounded
>great, others(cheap tapes) were low bassy sounding.
This was probably because the azimuth was wrong. You MUST ride the azimuth
on cassettes because they are invariably recorded with it wrong.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
In article <4768a13b.3576906@news.sentex,net >, zeus <zeus@hotmail,com > wrote:
>I have just recently ripped from pre-recorded tapes directly from the
>cassette player to the sound card on the pc using creative
>recorder.Then burned them to CD.
>I was mildly surprised to hear the music on some (about 150) sounded
>great, others(cheap tapes) were low bassy sounding.
This was probably because the azimuth was wrong. You MUST ride the azimuth
on cassettes because they are invariably recorded with it wrong.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
