Cassette to Digital Format

[DanDaManJC]

So my dad has a lot of old sermons from various pastors on cassette at home and he wants to copy all of these cassettes to his pc so he can listen to them on his mp3 player.

Now it's pretty easy to hookup a regular cassette player, even a walkman, to the computer's line in and simply use audacity + lame to convert to mp3... but with hundreds of cassettes with 90minutes messages that will take years for him to do. And I sure don't want to do it either.

So I was wondering how we could do this fast(er). He has an old Telex Copyette 121 mono that copies tapes (tape -> tape) in a couple minutes... but it doesn't have any line out or analog output that I could input to a pc. So is there some kind of similar hardware, with an analog out?

looking around this was found:
http://martelelectronics.com/M...CTGY&Category_Code=C2D

but the price is ridiculous for our purposes... all we really need is some kinda hi speed tape player that can output to a pc, then audacity can take care of the rest.

Thanks for the help!

 

[TerryMathews]

Since you've already got a high-speed tape deck and just need to get a line out from it, have you ever tried on of those CD->tape adapters for in the car? I don't know for certain if they work in reverse or not, but I think they might since it's just an electromagnet. Worth a shot anyway.

Then all you'd have to do is record the audio and slow it down so it's understandable.

 

[herm0016]

any tape deck with a dubbing feature will work, most decks with dual heads have a dubbing feature. otherwise check this out: http://www.amazon.com/Merax-DI...B000CSGIJW/ref=sr_1_9?*****&s=electronics&qid=1215551959&sr=1-9

 

[DanDaManJC]

I tried the cd-> tape adapter dealio just now without any luck. Audacity didn't seem to pick anything up with the convertor plugged into our computer's line in... so apparently it doesn't seem to work in reverse. You wouldn't happen to know of any way to make this work in reverse would ya?

as for that device herm0016 mentioned -- looks good, but it's not really what we need. inputting to the computer's line in jack and then using audacity works just fine using the speaker out on a regular cassette player. we're just trying to copy / sample the cassettes at a fast rate then slow them down inside the computer.

and thanks for the info on the dubbing tape deck, it looks like that may be what we'll need... but if we could jerry rig something like TerryMatthews mentioned that'd be a lot cheaper

 

[SAWYER]

A guy I work with bought a usb tape ripper that he claims rips at 192 kps and works great.

 

[biggestmuff]

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