I want to record tapes and get them on CDs

[tweakmm]

I have a bunch of taped bootlegs of concerts and I am looking to get them onto CDs. I am looking for what software that will let me record onto my comp and then break the audio up into tracks.

cheers
Mike


EDIT:
I have a GTXP and I already have it connected, I'm just looking for the software

 

[Valhalla1]

well the free way (probably not the easiest) would be to run a line from your tape deck to the input on your sound card, and run Windows sound recorder to record them was .wav files.. you can break it up into tracks (manually) with sound recorder too.

then just burn the wav to cd

but I'm sure theres better software to do what you want, but i dont know of it

 

[tweakmm]

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[Willoughbyva]

Are the tapes in good quality? Acid and Magix both make programs specifically for records (I assume tapes too). If it was me I would use Nero wave editer or some such and see how it sounded before I spent money on a program. You can download a trial version of Ahead Nero, but I am not sure if the wave editor works in the trial. You can check and see. Also you can check www.hitsquad.com .


Will

 

[PliotronX]

GoldWave or CoolEdit 2000 is my recommendation. Both are almost equal in ease of use and featureset, but GoldWave is half the price and comes with a relatively restriction-free trial version. For splitting up the tracks, GoldWave includes a cue feature where you place the cursor on the waveform and drop a cue point there. Then when you have all of your cue points in place, you hit the split button and it's all set up, and even has the option of correcting the sector count to match CD audio so that no skips occur on the track transitions when playing the CD.

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[bozo1]

Another vote for Goldwave but Nero's audio editor can do what you want as well.

 

[tweakmm]

now I have a problem. I have my tape deck hooked up to my breakout box and when I play the tape, it plays through my speakers, but neither nero or goldwave will record the audio

 

[tweakmm]

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[mellondust]

<< GoldWave or CoolEdit 2000 is my recommendation. >>



Download the trial versions of these and try them out before you buy them. I just went through the same thing as you trying to record audio tapes and burn them on a cd. I was recording some mono tapes of voices not music but found out a lot about both. I tried out the above mentioned software and found it was ok, but both were lacking. Neither one had all the stuff I needed to make easy copies. I finally my used Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum which I already had but didn't know how to use the audio editing software. It gave the best quality playback and though the interface is a little wierd, it has everything I needed and it was easy to use. Goldwave was simple but I didn't like the quality, and Cooledit had the best quality of the free stuff but it was too complex to figure out all the options and graphs. I liked Roxio the best becuase of the ease of use, I didn't have to configure as much stuff to get it to work well.

One problem I ran into was setting up the hardware to record it. I finally had to use the micophone-in on my sound card which worked just fine for what I was doing. I just had to adjust the input volume on my stereo and the input amount in the software. I tried everything to get it to work with my audio-in jack but no success. Stereo recording is more picky when your recording, the quality of the input(source and hardware getting it there) makes a big difference. I could never get it to sound real smooth without a little distortion like popping and other things with my cheap setup.



<< now I have a problem. I have my tape deck hooked up to my breakout box and when I play the tape, it plays through my speakers, but neither nero or goldwave will record the audio >>



Check what source the software is trying to record from. If I remember correctly you have to configure what the source is going to be on some of the software. That is why I liked the Roxio software, it did everything for me.

Also if these tapes are from a mono source like a hand held or something, you can get a lot higher quality and save some hd space if you record them in mono at like 44 khz. It is amazing how much space an audio tape will take up. I got real good quallity at mono 44khz and one side of a 90 minute tape only took up about 250mbs.