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Transfer cassette to CD... - 10/28/2008 10:13:50 AM
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VisitorinWaiting
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I have looked up how to do this...so I know that it's not difficult...if you have the right equipment...which I'm sure that many people do... All the sites I looked at though, wanted $8-$16 a piece for each transfer. Even at $8, with me biting the cost for shipping, this seems too high...especially for the amount that I have to do. I have SEVERAL cassettes that were purchased somewhere in the 200-2002 range. They haven't been used since then because they were purchased for my use as a Kindergarten teacher. Well, now I have children of the Kindergarten age myself and would love to use these cassettes. My cassette player "EATS" the cassette tape...and I really don't want to repair it since it is old...and I don't want to buy a new cassette player since cassettes are practically outdated. I would love to get these transfered to a CD. Does anyone know of a less expensive way to do this? Anyone do this for others that would keep the charge down? I'm even willing to buy the CD's to transfer to, since we use them for saving things anyway, I will have extras...
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 10/28/2008 10:18:39 AM
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uncabeeil
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You can hook your cassette deck up to your computer through your sound card. Then download a program called Audacity. Use the program to record your cassettes to your hard drive. You'll have to separate each track manually, the program doesn't do it automatically.
At least I think that's how you do it. I have a turntable that plugs into my sound card and I've been using the same program to transfer my vinyl.
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 10/28/2008 10:32:29 AM
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VisitorinWaiting
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Yeah...that's what I read...that I could do that...only problem is that my cassette deck "EATS" the cassette tape...so I wouldn't be able to do that... :(
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 10/28/2008 11:01:53 AM
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Go buy a cheapie cassette deck/boom box. Go from headphones out to the input on your computer. Record in Audacity as Bill suggested. And there you go. I've done this for dozens of songs.
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 10/28/2008 11:44:49 AM
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Zhi
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You can usually get a simple cassette-style walkman still for around 10 bucks, it should be sufficient.
Or you can see if any of your friends or acquaintances still have a functional cassette player. Or you might try your local thrift store... bring a cassette you don't mind wrecking to check it (or buy a cassette for 25 cents from there and see if it works on their stuff).
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 10/28/2008 12:18:45 PM
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DaveW
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only problem is that my cassette deck "EATS" the cassette tape Do you have a friend or relative who can loan you their cassette deck until you are done?
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 10/30/2008 7:08:29 AM
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ORIGINAL: VisitorinWaiting
I have looked up how to do this...so I know that it's not difficult...if you have the right equipment...which I'm sure that many people do... All the sites I looked at though, wanted $8-$16 a piece for each transfer. Even at $8, with me biting the cost for shipping, this seems too high...especially for the amount that I have to do. I have SEVERAL cassettes that were purchased somewhere in the 200-2002 range. They haven't been used since then because they were purchased for my use as a Kindergarten teacher. Well, now I have children of the Kindergarten age myself and would love to use these cassettes. My cassette player "EATS" the cassette tape...and I really don't want to repair it since it is old...and I don't want to buy a new cassette player since cassettes are practically outdated. I would love to get these transfered to a CD. Does anyone know of a less expensive way to do this? Anyone do this for others that would keep the charge down? I'm even willing to buy the CD's to transfer to, since we use them for saving things anyway, I will have extras...
For less than $50, you can get a good used cassette player off of ebay that used to sell for several hundred dollars. Maybe less than $30 if you look around. I got a pair a couple years ago for $25. I'd try to get one with pitch control, because there's no guarantee that the motor will be calibrated correctly. I bought a new machine once from Best Buy that played at the wrong speed.
The reason that tape transfers cost so much is because they take a long time - they have to be done in real-time. $8 is pretty cheap if you figure that even though an operator doesn't have to sit there the entire time, it still ties up their machine for an hour.
-Dan.
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 11/22/2008 6:14:53 PM
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craigrmeyer
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As an alternative to all that hassle, you can just use a paid service instead. (Disclosure: I am the proprietor of just such a service, http://www.ReclaimMedia.com ).
If you have just ten or so cassettes or records to do then it's cheaper than buying equipment. If you have more that that, though, then it's still the best deal so long as your time is worth at least minimum wage.
I've written an article about why using a paid service is a good idea. Before spending any more of your time or life on this, you owe it to yourself to give it a look and decide whether its arguments apply to you: http://reclaimmedia.com/article_at_home.html
And that's all. Thank you,
--Craig Meyer
Seattle WA
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 12/2/2008 4:58:59 PM
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ot4christ
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ORIGINAL: VisitorinWaiting
Does anyone know of a less expensive way to do this? Anyone do this for others that would keep the charge down? I'm even willing to buy the CD's to transfer to, since we use them for saving things anyway, I will have extras...
Are you still looking to transfer the audio? I did this with a cassette I have of an out-of-print album. I used a high quality “walkman” and connected the headphone-out to the line-in of my computer and edited the thing with Audacity. The result can be found here(you may need to sign up to listen, sorry). If I had to do it again, I’d take the tape to church and use our cassette to CD recorder. It literally took me all day to complete the project. With the tape to CD conversion, I could go straight to editing and eliminate the time consuming transfer. If you don’t have access to such a machine, pm me and we can work something out, no charge other than maybe a self-addressed envelope for the return of materials.
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 12/2/2008 10:34:53 PM
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ORIGINAL: ot4christ
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ORIGINAL: VisitorinWaiting
Does anyone know of a less expensive way to do this? Anyone do this for others that would keep the charge down? I'm even willing to buy the CD's to transfer to, since we use them for saving things anyway, I will have extras...
Are you still looking to transfer the audio? I did this with a cassette I have of an out-of-print album. I used a high quality “walkman” and connected the headphone-out to the line-in of my computer and edited the thing with Audacity. The result can be found here(you may need to sign up to listen, sorry). If I had to do it again, I’d take the tape to church and use our cassette to CD recorder. It literally took me all day to complete the project. With the tape to CD conversion, I could go straight to editing and eliminate the time consuming transfer. If you don’t have access to such a machine, pm me and we can work something out, no charge other than maybe a self-addressed envelope for the return of materials.
Why did it take you all day? Sure, you'd have to transfer the tape in real-time -that's about 90 minutes- but other than that, the editing should have been fairly quick and easy - just chop up the one big track into ~12 separate regions/tracks, apply fade-ins/fade-outs to taste, and bounce them out. Figure a half-hour for the editing.
-Dan.
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RE: Transfer cassette to CD... - 12/2/2008 11:12:06 PM
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ot4christ
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Why did it take you all day?
It was probably more like 4 to 5 hours. It took a while, because it was my first time doing it. Heck, it took me about 30-minutes just to find and add the ID3 tags:) I didn’t have that information as it was a tape of a 27-year old album. Oh yeah, instead of transferring the entire tape at once, I did it one song at a time!! After a few of these, I figured it would be much faster to record the whole thing and cut it into pieces. It also took a while to find a balance between noise reduction and introducing artifacts. This is also much faster to do with the entire tape in one file. I think I was too aggressive with the noise reduction. But I am not an audiophile so was pleased with the results. I took the tape to church that evening and had our sound guy take it home and transfer it. He’s a sound engineer and did a better job than I did but his version still has some tape “hiss” and no artifacts. My version has no “hiss” but noticeable artifacts. Using our copier at church and not including the copy time, I figure I could probably edit the thing in about 15-minutes assuming I already have the ID3 information:).
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