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Copying audio tapes to mp3 on audio CDs
I have a bunch of French lessons on audio tape cassettes that I
would like to copy to audio CDs. I would prefer mp3 format with considerable compression, since the content is speech only. My PC has an auxiliary input on the sound card, which I can connect to the output of my cassette player. What software (preferably free) should I use for this task? I have Nero 5 to burn the CDs. -- Fred Blau (Remove SPAM-STOP from e-mail address) |
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On 14 Mar 2008, "Fred Blau" wrote in
alt.comp.periphs.cdr: I have a bunch of French lessons on audio tape cassettes that I would like to copy to audio CDs. I would prefer mp3 format with considerable compression, since the content is speech only. My PC has an auxiliary input on the sound card, which I can connect to the output of my cassette player. What software (preferably free) should I use for this task? I have Nero 5 to burn the CDs. Nero 5 may include an audio recorder - Nero 6 does, called Wave Editor. It will record the input from your sound card and you can save in MP3 format. If you don't already have that, consider Audacity, a decent free digital audio editor, available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. |
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Copying audio tapes to mp3 on audio CDs
Thank you, Nil. I just downloaded and installed Audacity version
1.2.6 for Windows. It looks like a very nice program, so I will take some time to read some of the tutorial material in the wiki. Two quick questions (for anyone): (1) What is the best way to start recording/digitizing from an audio tape? Should I just start the recorder, then start the cassette player, and edit out any blank space later? (2) How do I monitor the end of the tape sound (so that I can stop recording)? Can I listen to the digitized audio stream while I am recording it? On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:06:27 UTC, Nil wrote: On 14 Mar 2008, "Fred Blau" wrote in alt.comp.periphs.cdr: I have a bunch of French lessons on audio tape cassettes that I would like to copy to audio CDs. I would prefer mp3 format with considerable compression, since the content is speech only. My PC has an auxiliary input on the sound card, which I can connect to the output of my cassette player. What software (preferably free) should I use for this task? I have Nero 5 to burn the CDs. Nero 5 may include an audio recorder - Nero 6 does, called Wave Editor. It will record the input from your sound card and you can save in MP3 format. If you don't already have that, consider Audacity, a decent free digital audio editor, available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. -- Fred Blau (Remove SPAM-STOP from e-mail address) |
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Copying audio tapes to mp3 on audio CDs
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Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/38wte6 (No Mikey S-Lickers have been able to prove ANY of the above ) (is a LIBEL -- despite Mikey claimed to have PROOF of libels!) ' Fred Blau wrote: I have a bunch of French lessons on audio tape cassettes that I would like to copy to audio CDs. I would prefer mp3 format with considerable compression, since the content is speech only. My PC has an auxiliary input on the sound card, which I can connect to the output of my cassette player. What software (preferably free) should I use for this task? I have Nero 5 to burn the CDs. These two are Nero 5 Tutorials. How to capture cassette or vinyl using Wave Editor: http://www.gcasda.org/_sections/tech...ptureaudio.pdf How to convert wav to mp3 using Nero: http://www.gcasda.org/_sections/tech...g/wavtomp3.pdf (You can also use Audacity or CDex to convert wav to mp3.) |
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Copying audio tapes to mp3 on audio CDs
On 14 Mar 2008, "Fred Blau" wrote
in alt.comp.periphs.cdr: (1) What is the best way to start recording/digitizing from an audio tape? Should I just start the recorder, then start the cassette player, and edit out any blank space later? I'll assume the lessons tape is divided into chapters and you want to split each chapter into a separate MP3. A possible method would be... - Do some test recordings to find the right level. Record a sample of the loudest part of the tape. Look at the waveform to make sure the peaks approach the top and bottom of the display, but that they never exceed it. If that happens, you may get some nasty-sounding digital distortion. Listen to your sample to make sure it sounds OK to you. - record the whole side of the tape, if possible to WAV format. Keep in mind that this takes up tons of space on your computer. Stereo recording takes up about 10 MB per minute. Mono, which might be appropriate for this purpose, would be half that. - Then select the first chapter with the mouse. Choose File | Export Selection from the menu. You can choose to export it as MP3. - Continue with the remaining chapters. Then do the other side of the cassette. When you're done burning the MP3s to a data CDR, you can delete the old WAV and MP3 files. (2) How do I monitor the end of the tape sound (so that I can stop recording)? Can I listen to the digitized audio stream while I am recording it? It depends on your sound card. The easiest way is to use the headphone jack on the cassette deck, assuming it has one. If you have to, you can do without monitoring it, just eyeballing the waveform on screen as it records. |
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Copying audio tapes to mp3 on audio CDs
On 2008-03-14, Fred Blau wrote:
I have a bunch of French lessons on audio tape cassettes that I would like to copy to audio CDs. I would prefer mp3 format with considerable compression, since the content is speech only. Audio CDs do not use MP3 compression. 74 minutes per disk. On the other hand, there are CD players which can play MP3 data cds which won't play in your usual car or home CD player (but will play in your TV's DVD player). For an MP3 CD simply burn the MP3 files to a data CD. Watch out for problems with support for all MP3 settings. I like old time radio (old AM broadcasts, so low bitrate, low sampling rate, mono to handle a lot of data on one CD). One of my DVD players chokes on them so I usually use 128Kbps, stereo, 44.1KHz since any MP3 player should be able to handle that. |
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Copying audio tapes to mp3 on audio CDs
Thanks for the tips and the clarification about audio CDs.
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:53:36 UTC, Spamless wrote: On 2008-03-14, Fred Blau wrote: I have a bunch of French lessons on audio tape cassettes that I would like to copy to audio CDs. I would prefer mp3 format with considerable compression, since the content is speech only. Audio CDs do not use MP3 compression. 74 minutes per disk. On the other hand, there are CD players which can play MP3 data cds which won't play in your usual car or home CD player (but will play in your TV's DVD player). For an MP3 CD simply burn the MP3 files to a data CD. Watch out for problems with support for all MP3 settings. I like old time radio (old AM broadcasts, so low bitrate, low sampling rate, mono to handle a lot of data on one CD). One of my DVD players chokes on them so I usually use 128Kbps, stereo, 44.1KHz since any MP3 player should be able to handle that. -- Fred Blau (Remove SPAM-STOP from e-mail address) |
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Copying audio tapes to mp3 on audio CDs
Thanks once more, Nil. This helps.
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:23:30 UTC, Nil wrote: On 14 Mar 2008, "Fred Blau" wrote in alt.comp.periphs.cdr: (1) What is the best way to start recording/digitizing from an audio tape? Should I just start the recorder, then start the cassette player, and edit out any blank space later? I'll assume the lessons tape is divided into chapters and you want to split each chapter into a separate MP3. A possible method would be... - Do some test recordings to find the right level. Record a sample of the loudest part of the tape. Look at the waveform to make sure the peaks approach the top and bottom of the display, but that they never exceed it. If that happens, you may get some nasty-sounding digital distortion. Listen to your sample to make sure it sounds OK to you. - record the whole side of the tape, if possible to WAV format. Keep in mind that this takes up tons of space on your computer. Stereo recording takes up about 10 MB per minute. Mono, which might be appropriate for this purpose, would be half that. - Then select the first chapter with the mouse. Choose File | Export Selection from the menu. You can choose to export it as MP3. - Continue with the remaining chapters. Then do the other side of the cassette. When you're done burning the MP3s to a data CDR, you can delete the old WAV and MP3 files. (2) How do I monitor the end of the tape sound (so that I can stop recording)? Can I listen to the digitized audio stream while I am recording it? It depends on your sound card. The easiest way is to use the headphone jack on the cassette deck, assuming it has one. If you have to, you can do without monitoring it, just eyeballing the waveform on screen as it records. -- Fred Blau (Remove SPAM-STOP from e-mail address) |
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