Cassette to MP3???

[Tired of the Bull]

I want to play around with converting some old cassettes to MP3 for archiving and was hoping someone has some experience in doing this.

I have a SB Live X-Gamer and have read about several software titles capable of recording the "Line In" and encoding it but I have no clue which software works the best at such things as removing the popping and cracking etc.

Any help or recommendations will be much appreciated.

 

[SteelyKen]

http://www.goldwave.com

 

[Workin']

I think Cool Edit 2000 is much better than Goldwave.

http://www.syntrillium.com

or Sound Forge

Try searching the forums and forum archives using the term "LP" as the search string. There's lots of information that has already been posted in previous threads about converting LP's to CD. The same would generally apply to cassettes. I've personally converted dozens of cassettes to CD-Rs, it's not too hard, but to do it right takes a little work and patience.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Here it is.......best thing to do is to get a walkman and a 3.5 milimeter extension cable. It has 2 of those little 3.5 mil jacks on each end... You just plug one end into your walkman and the other into either the mic jack or the line in jack on your sound card. Then get a good WAV recording program... Record as wav to preserve the quality and then convert from wav to mp3. Just remember to play with the volume levels on the walkman and on the computer...(keep the cassette player set to the lowest volume to begin with and gradually increase it). Good luck and remember...you might want to get a good wav editor. Ohh yeah, it takes a fast system to do it this way. I hope it'll work for ya!

 

[kwarnock]

I've had good success in recording to MP3 from both tape as well as vinyl disk using MusicMatch Jukebox

http://www.musicmatch.com/

About the only restriction that I have seen on the free downloadable version of the software is that you can't record at any higher rate than 96kbps unless you buy into the registered version.

Hope that this helps.

Ken

 

[Adrian Tung]

I would recommend using Cool Edit as you can use the Noise Reduction effect to remove cassette hiss that you will probably pick up while recording.


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