[Novalug] converting old cassette audio tapes to digital

John Holland jholland@vin-dit.org
Thu Nov 26 15:37:25 EST 2015


You can plug the line out of any normal cassette deck into your sound card and bring the sound into any linux sound recording app and record the songs. The hard part is arranging to have your mp3’s end at the end of the song.  I would expect you have to sit there and stop it recording when the end comes or edit it later to set the cutoff. I have some mp3’s I got off cassettes this way a long time ago.

If they have an automated way to detect the end and beginning of songs that would be valuable.  Otherwise I think this device will be trouble - unless you do this in Windows or OS X.

John
> On Nov 26, 2015, at 3:13 PM, Bonnie Dalzell via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> as part of the great clean up I have been unearthing my collection of old cassette audio tapes and I have decided I want to try and convert them to digital.
> 
> this device has mixed reviews
> 
> Ion Tape2PC USB Cassette Deck
> 
> http://cassette-to-mp3-review.toptenreviews.com/tape-2-pc-review.html
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VG802I/?tag=ttr_cassette-to-mp3-converter-20&ascsubtag=[site|ttr[cat|806[art|NA[pid|52429[tid|NA[bbc|NA
> 
> however its software (EZ Tape Converter)  which has better reviews than audacity is listed as comaptible with mac and windows XP or Vista.
> 
> a lot of XP software runs well under WINE these days but not all of it.
> 
> has anyone here had experience with audio cassette conversions?
> 
> I have not been able to determine if this device can feed its signal into Audacity.
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