Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:25:53 +0200 From: "Busy Tom" Subject: AW: recording cassettes onto CD
Hi !
Converting to MP3 is a very good method, but one should not forget thatin the process of converting information gets lost, as MP3 is a compressed format. So it depends on what you want to do woth the recording. But i rather would not store it in the MP3-format if you want to use the CD for demo-purposes or even selling it. Another way of bruning CD-ROMS's for free is by downloading "RealJukeBox Basic", which is available for free and can be downloaded at "www.real.com"..
Blues & Gruß
Busy Tom Vienna Blues Connection www.blues.at ICQ# 16082183 FON:+43.699.12034957
- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: owner-harp~arply.com [mailto:owner-harp~arply.com] Im Auftrag von Bryan Hall Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. August 2001 05:30 An: 'al~luecats.org'; William A. Lifford; harp-l Betreff: RE: recording cassettes onto CD
That's one way to do it.. but a better way, perhaps, is to convert it directly to MP3 and store that on your hard drive. Then, when you're ready to burn, use a program that'll automagically convert the mp3 into an appropriate format for placement on the cd.
The program I use for this (mp3 to cd burning) is 'MP3 CD Maker' and can be found on www.download.com by doing a search for the above. It's shareware.. only 30 bucks.. but it's worth it's weight in gold. Saves a lot of hard drive space, and if I'm not mistaken, allows for normalizing as you go.
Sorry to interject my .02 into this, but it's what I do for a living.. IT stuffs. (Any other IT harpists? -or is that harpers?- out there?)
- -----Original Message----- From: Alec Drachman [mailto:al~luecats.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:05 PM To: William A. Lifford; harp-l Subject: Re: recording cassettes onto CD
"William A. Lifford" wrote:
> Hello everybody, I have lots of great harmonica music on cassette that
> is either out of print or out-takes, etc., that are otherwise > unavailable on CD. I have a CD burner, and that got me to thinking...
> is it possible to record these cassettes into my computer, and then > burn them track by track onto CD?
Hi Bill,
I've done quite a bit of this. Here are a few things to try:
*Plug into the line-in jack instead of the mic jack.
*Make sure you are using a stereo cord.
*If you can, run out of a tape deck with standard RCA jacks. Use a y-cord that goes from two rca jacks to a stereo 1/8" miniplug. This will sound a bit better than using a headphone jack, although you might have to amplify the signal with a pre-amp first.
*Right click on the little speaker in your system tray and choose "Open audio properties" or some such thing. Make sure that the line-in level is turned up and the mute is not on.
*You'll probably want something better than the windows sound recorder. You might have gotten a decent one with your CD burner software. If not, try downloading the free version of Cooledit.
*Make sure that you don't clip the signal when you record it. Digital clipping with inexpensive sound cards is a very nasty sound. It's better to record a bit quieter and then use the recording software to "normalize" the wav file.
*Make sure you have plenty of room on your hard drive. 74 minutes worth of music requires 650 megs of space.
Hope this helps.
Good luck and have fun.
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