Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g3IENxu13632; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:23:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:23:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000701c1e6e4$93a3c4c0$cc01fea9@lvl> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Cindi Riley <lvl@hargray.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2432] Re: Recording help X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Status: O Content-Length: 3807 Lines: 90 My husband is doing a lot of this with his new computer, which runs WindowsXP. He has a Dell Jukebox (I think that's the name of it) program that came with the computer that will record the tapes into MP3 files. Then the burner software will record the MP3s onto a CD in the proper audio format. The hardware setup is similar to what is described below. ******************** Cindi Riley Assistant Director Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry 1403 Prince St. Beaufort, SC 29902 phone 843-525-6658 fax 843-521-1945 lvl@hargray.com -----Original Message----- From: nifl-technology@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-technology@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Steve Linberg Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2407] Re: Recording help On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Carol Morris wrote: > I have a group of adult learners for whom I've made a couple of cassette > tapes. Three of them asked me to make the cassette tapes available on > CD's as they have portable CD players. I have a CD burner, but am unsure > how to complete the process. Do I need special software or expensive > equipment to make it happen? I tried an Internet search and found mostly > businesses that would do the copying for me. Any ideas or directions > would be appreciated. Hi Carol. You'll need a couple of things: 1. Some way to pull the audio into your computer from your casettes 2. A method for converting the resulting sound files into AIFF files (for standard audio CDs, which is what you'll need if you want to be able to play the CDs on standard/portable CD players) 3. Software for burning the CDs, which you probably got with your CD burner If you gave a cassette player with RCA "line-out" capability (most stero-component players have this), you can get a converter that takes RCA plugs in and gives a microphone jack out for a few bucks at Radio Shack. Be sure to tell them you need the converter for a computer microphone input, not a stereo microphone. You can also get a digital-to-analog converter box if you want to do video as well; I recently picked up a Canopus ADVC-100 that has digital and analog input and output for audio and video. A little pricey at $300, but it's an amazingly useful device. I have racks of old videotapes I'm digitizing to CD/DVD, and this box is insanely useful for that purpose. It's overkill if you just want audio, though. You'll then need software to record the audio; basically, you hook up your player, connect its output to your microphone input, use your software's "record" function and press "play" on your tape player. You will probably want to experiment with this a bit to get the best results, so plan a few trial runs. You might want to split the audio up into parts, or have one long track, for example. You might also want to do some editing/cleaning to crop parts that aren't relevant. Then you'll need to save your resulting files as AIFF, which is the format used for CD tracks. They will be fairly large: typically around 10 megabytes or so per minute depending on the audio settings you recorded with. Then you just run your CD-burning software to create an audio CD, and arrange the tracks as you want them. On Macs, iTunes is a very nice free program that can do this, and Toast is great if you want a little more control. You can also search on sites like versiontracker.com for freeware/shareware/commercial software that will let you do the recording and editing; there are many on the Mac side, some free and some commercial, that will do this for you. I'm sure there are Windows programs too, but I'm not familiar with them personally. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Linberg, Chief Goblin Silicon Goblin Technologies http://silicongoblin.com Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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