[Shotimes] OT copying cassettes to CDs

[Kenneth Epperly]

It isn't that hard just time consuming, plus most of my vinyl is in good 
shape as to using a quality turntable and cartage (track at less than .5 
grams)

        Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James White" <greensho@crown.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT copying cassettes to CDs


> 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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