Burning tapes

[Hawkeye178]

I have a Phillips CD burner on my computer and I was wondering how I can burn a tape onto a CD while using the burner on my computer.

[Hawkeye178]

will anybody respond???

[randy48]

You'll at least need a video capture card, compression/editing software and a harddrive with a lot of free space.

Here are a few links that should help you get a better understanding. Also a few freeware programs you may be interested in!
http://www.divx-digest.com/
http://www.doom9.net/
http://www.mpegnews.com/
http://www.vcdhelper.com/

[spidey_joe80@hotmail.com]

do u mean audio tapes or vhs tapes?

[Hawkeye178]

I mean music.

[spidey_joe80@hotmail.com]

oh audio tapes get a stereo cable and run it through the audio out on your cassete player and plug the other side into the audio in on the back of your comp.

[Hawkeye178]

Thanks Spidey, someone told me that before but I wanted to make sure. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Hawkeye178

[muno]

The quality is usually just crappy. The background noise is horrible. At least when I copied a mc to my pc it sounded like someone was trying to sing in the sewers and hope me to hear at the top.
-M

[RayH]

Depending upon the quality of the original, audio cassettes to CD can be of fairly acceptable quality. I've done it a few times. It's a pain to do it.

You hook the line out of the stereo to the aux in of the sound card. This usually requires an RCA Y-jack and an RCA to mini (be sure to get STEREO and not MONO cables).

But a lot of the ripping software can't distinguish between hiss, music lulls, and end of track. It's best to do it manually. And that takes time!

[Hawkeye178]

What program should I use to copy it?

Hawkeye178

[hawkeye177]

Just do a music cd in your burning program. what ever it is

[Hawkeye178]

I mean what program should I use to copy the "audio" tape on to my hardrive?

Hawkeye178

[U-96]

I use the Recorder that comes with the SB Live! install.

Just select the input source, press play on the tape and hit record. You will probably need to play with EQ, Dolby, input levels etc before you get a good recording level.

You can either record a track at a time, or if you have a meaty PC, record each side (probably 200-300MB).

Then I use CoolEdit to remove hiss, noise, etc, and break the wav into separate .wavs for burning onto CD.

There are quite a few freeware programs that will also do this, but you may need to use two or three different ones.

It's pretty laborious - I only do it for bootlegs and rare stuff I can't get on CD elsewhere.

[alondra]

I am using U96 method, if you cant find the cable with the RCA plugs you can pull it out of the phone jack, I was doing this till I got the RCA cable at R/S $5.00 be sure you stop recording between tracks if you want them separate or the whole tape will be one track. you should be hearing them as played, just click between stop and record. I am copying separate pieces from 40s cassetes.

[Hawkeye178]

Two questions, U-96. One what is and how do you use cool edit, and how do you break the wave file into different tracks. I'm using Voyetra Audiostation to copy the songs onto my hardrive but it doesn't have any editors, that I know of, to enhance the sound. I also want to say thanks to every who responded to this topic because if it weren't you guys and or girls I wouldn't of gotten anywhere on this, thanks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Hawkeye178