[xmca] cassette-to-digital

More info on transferring cassette recordings to digital format:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq5CSJ7LzrU
http://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Cassette-Tape-to-Computer
http://www.andybrain.com/archive/convert-cassette-to-cd-digital.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nYEhuhx20E&feature=fvw

In the video he's taking his audio files to a CD, but if you just want the
audio on your computer you can skip the last part.

I'm attaching a handout I developed which explains the same basic thing.

He's using Audacity, which is what I'd recommend. It's free,
cross-platform, and fairly easy to use. One thing to note is that you'll
need to do one of these two things to end up w/ seperate files for each
song:

- so an individual recording for each song, or
- transfer the entire cassette (or each side, anyway) and then split the
long recording into individual songs

If you're on a Mac (which I think you are, Dr, Smagorinsky) and want to burn
a CD, you can use iTunes for that part of the process.

If you don't mind spending a little money you can buy a special rig designed
to do exactly this. Google "transfer cassette to mp3" and you'll get plenty
of hits.
Here's one example (though I'm not endorsing it).

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=210663763&listingid=37031796

Hope that helps.

Thanks,

Ron B

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Ron Braxley
Digital Media Specialist
Office of Information Technology
UGA College of Education
rbraxley@uga.edu
706.542.8007

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