[Shotimes] OT copying cassettes to CDs

[James White]

Boy, you really lost me on that one...

That is why I would actually pay someone to do it for me.

I just don't have the time to go through the learning curve.

My SHOs take up enough of my time.

regards, Jim White


At Monday, 09 January 2006, "George Fourchy" <krazgeo@comcast.net> 
wrote:

>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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