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Tape to digital converter?

Postby Sylv » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:07 am

Does anyone have one of these that they would be happy to lend/rent?

Cheers

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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Rogan » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:57 pm

I could do with one of those - but once you've done your copying it's not going to get used.
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Ivor » Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:23 pm

[quote="Sylv"]Does anyone have one of these that they would be happy to lend/rent?

haven't you got a tape deck anywhere?
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Sylv » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:14 am

Yes I have a Yahama tape deck
But tapes won't last forever
and would be handier on mp3 files
But true once you're done with it not much use with the apparel- you could buy mine for £30 Rogan : )
There's also this stuff for cheaper: http://www.musicalitysoftware.com/en-GB/Demo
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Elliot M » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:26 am

Can you plug your Yamaha tape deck into your PC's audio input and then use free software like Audacity to chop it up and encode?
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Ivor » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:31 am

[quote="Sylv"]Yes I have a Yahama tape deck
But tapes won't last forever

yeah I meant why not hook the tape deck up to your PC, then you can capture the audio spending as long as you like twiddling with it. and compress it down to MP3 or FLAC or whatever you fancy after you've finished cutting/playing about.
should be able to do it all with opensource software I'd have thought.
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Sylv » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:37 am

Sounds good, will have a go thanks
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby George » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:47 am

if you have a mac you can record straight into garage band using a stereo mini jack to phono/rca cable
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Sylv » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:52 am

Course I have a mac, it's raining today

But no mini Jack around, only a big Joe
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Ivor » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:53 am

[quote="Sylv"]Course I have a mac, it's raining today

But no mini Jack around, only a big Joe


http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ is supposed to be pretty good, haven't tried it myself though.
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby George » Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:01 am

[quote="Ivor"][quote="Sylv"]Course I have a mac, it's raining today

But no mini Jack around, only a big Joe


http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ is supposed to be pretty good, haven't tried it myself though.

Garage band comes free with Ilife so if you've got a mac you've probably got it already and is dead simple to use.
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Ivor » Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:34 am

you could always send the tape to George and he'll do it for you on his mac. :lol:
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Sylv » Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:54 am

Have a pc. (And not very good on it)
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Phil H » Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:04 pm

I was going to offer advice and even loan of cables from my vast repository of different audio and computer connectors, but to be quite honest it's far, far easier to just illegally download the music that you've already paid for than it is to try and convert vinyl or cassettes to MP3.

(The above should not be construed as incitement to do anything illegal)
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Re: Tape to digital converter?

Postby Ivor » Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:08 am

[quote="Phil Hawkes"]I was going to offer advice and even loan of cables from my vast repository of different audio and computer connectors, but to be quite honest it's far, far easier to just illegally download the music that you've already paid for than it is to try and convert vinyl or cassettes to MP3.
(The above should not be construed as incitement to do anything illegal)


Sure or just buy the CD so you get an uncompressed version.

on the other hand if you've got recordings on tape that you've made yourself, perhaps interviews/ lectures/ some wacky obscure live session etc. then it's still something you might want to do.
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