[Shotimes] OT copying cassettes to CDs

[James F. Ryan III]

Roxio is is jack of all trades and does alot of different things.  It does
an okay job of cleaning up LPs and tapes.

If you want software that only does cleanup (and burning to CD or DVD) get a
"specialist" like Audio Cleaning Lab by Magix.  It's only $40.

http://tinyurl.com/9rt99

I've got hundreds of store-bought cassettes and over 100 live-recording
cassettes from the 80s "big-hair" band that I was in 15 years ago.

Those live-recordings sound better now than they did 15 years ago.  You
prolly don't have as many live-recordings as I do, but that's a testament to
the "cleaning" ability of this software.

The Polderbits is $35 and Audio Cleaning Lab is only $40 - you get ALOT more
for that add'l $5.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Fourchy" <krazgeo@comcast.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT copying cassettes to CDs


> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:30:51 -0500, Mike Wojton wrote:
>
> >Is there some way to get the recordings into my computer so I can burn
them
> >to a CD?  I don't have a real trick audio card.  Do you
> >have to have a card with RCA inputs in order to do this kind of thing?
I'm
> >cheap.  I don't want to have to spend a whole bunch of
> >money just to do it.
>
> There are several programs out there to convert analog music (records and
tapes) to
> allow digital storage on a hard disc, so that they can be burned to a CD.
I also
> have Roxio Media Creator 7.5...I've been using Roxio/Adaptec software
since it came
> out in the mid '90s.  A friend at work uses Nero Software.
>
> Basically for it and for most other programs I am aware of, you need a
stereo
> amplifier (like a receiver, which includes the radio and the amps) to get
the signal
> into the computer.  Most computer sound cards don't need RCA inputs...they
use a
> single mini-plug for stereo input and output.  You connect the computer to
the
> stereo system as if it was a tape deck...with a "record out" line (RCA
cable that
> connects to the computer cable), that goes into the "line in" port on the
sound
> card, and another one that goes from "line out" on the computer to the
adjacent
> "tape in" on the receiver.  You need a receiver because the input from the
turntable
> is much lower than that from a component tape deck or CD player.
>
> If you are making WAV files, which is what CDs you buy at the store are
burned as,
> you can adjust the tone and work on the pops and hisses with any CD
Creator
> program...the later the version, the more improvements you can make.  For
MP3 files,
> Media Creator 7.5 is the first one that allows working on that format.
The sound
> recorder function of windows will only adjust volume and edit lengths
(among
> others...those are what I use it for) on WAV files.
>
> There are literally pages and pages of comments I can make about CD
Creator....it's
> a "love-hate" relationship that I have with it.  This latest version has
several
> bugs, but I can work around them, and all the new cars here have MP3
changers in
> them, so I am changing my (almost) hundreds of WAV CDs to MP3.  I can go
from 20-25
> songs on a CD to between 150 and 175.  Definitely an improvement.
>
> Let me know if you have more questions.....music (for the cars) is what I
have my
> computers for, and I work with them ALL the time, at work and at home.
Email,
> browsing, pictures, web pages....those are all peripheral compared to
working with
> music.
>
> Someday I will start video, including that long lost suspension DVD.
>
> George
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