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fruitcake
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
Location: shinchon
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 Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: digitizing cassette tapes |
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I know this has been covered before, but can someone clue me in on the easiest way to do this?
Thanks! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: digitizing cassette tapes |
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| fruitcake wrote: |
I know this has been covered before, but can someone clue me in on the easiest way to do this?
Thanks! |
There is NO easy way.
Lots of ways but most of the time the result is mediocre at best and it will certainly not be of the quality you might expect.
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Run a cable from your tape's headphone jack to your computer Mic-in jack. Record with your favorite software. After that, you're digital, baby. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| if you have an mp3 player that has an audio in (your mp3 player looks like it has two headphone jacks), simply plug it in to the head phone jack of the stereo and hit play on the tape and your mp3 player will convert it into an mp3 file (not quite as simple as that but close). |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| tape's headphone jack to your computer Mic-in jack |
You would get better results if you use your audio cables (white/red) and connect them to LINE-IN and not MIC-IN. Mic-in picks up a lot of external noise (like from the computer or fan).
I did this way back in the 90s when I was backing up all my tapes, but eventually found downloading albums from the net sooo much easy  |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| line in, mic, in the jack is the same on most mp3 players i have seen, it is just the cable that is different |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Really?
I have a line-in and a mic in jack on my mp3 player which doubles as dual line-out. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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