| Unfortunately, converting cassettes to digital is time consuming. It is prohibitively expensive to have
someone else do it for you as it must be done at actual speed. It is not difficult to convert with a computer. The general
procedure is: 1) Use the best tape deck you can
get your hands on.
2) Use a computer with a good quality, low
noise, sound card with stereo line inputs.
3) While playing the tape, capture the audio to
.wav files using the highest possible output volume, without clipping. I have used Audiograbber, which is free. http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
4) After capturing the .wav files, apply any
noise reduction filters you may need.
In my experience, filters distort the signal and don't help very
much. I also tried a clean-up filter from Algorithmix: http://www.algorithmix.com/ My filtering experiments concluded that the
best results came by leaving the tape artifacts in the recording, without applying any filtering.
5) Edit/split/merge the .wav files as necessary.
There are many freeware programs for doing this.
6) Burn .wav files to a CD using most any CD
burning software.
7) The final step is to convert the CD, or .wav
files, directly to MP3 format. I have used audiograbber for this.
8) After the MP3 files are created, you will
probably want to edit the MP3 tags (e.g. title, correct speaker, date) show up in the MP3 player.
I recommend MP3 Tag Tools, which is free:
http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/ |
