hi, i want to take my audio cassettes and make them into CD's.
i thought that i would use a program Ditope's Media Digitalizer but it
is costly.

i then saw Audiograbber 1.83 http://tinyurl.com/mpvhe

has anyone any thoughts or has used the free program? what are it's good
points and bad. Or do you have an alternate idea
--
peace,
tish

Because life is too short. Because existence should be enjoyed, not just
endured. Because there never is enough time. Because every moment is
gorgeous. Because it should all be celebrated to the max!

I've used it for turning my daughter aging cassette collection into mp3 and
it's been great. Just connect the cassette desk output into the line-in on
your sound card and start capturing. It's never crashed, and works fine.

Good luck,

Pete

"tish" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:NuOzg.6$(E-Mail Removed)...
> hi, i want to take my audio cassettes and make them into CD's.
> i thought that i would use a program Ditope's Media Digitalizer but it is
> costly.
>
> i then saw Audiograbber 1.83 http://tinyurl.com/mpvhe
>
> has anyone any thoughts or has used the free program? what are it's good
> points and bad. Or do you have an alternate idea
> --
> peace,
> tish
>
> Because life is too short. Because existence should be enjoyed, not just
> endured. Because there never is enough time. Because every moment is
> gorgeous. Because it should all be celebrated to the max!

I use it to set timer and record radio shows and it's great.
Easy ripper too. Cant say about copying cassettes, but it would probably do
fine.

"tish" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:NuOzg.6$(E-Mail Removed)...
> hi, i want to take my audio cassettes and make them into CD's.
> i thought that i would use a program Ditope's Media Digitalizer but it is
> costly.
>
> i then saw Audiograbber 1.83 http://tinyurl.com/mpvhe
>
> has anyone any thoughts or has used the free program? what are it's good
> points and bad. Or do you have an alternate idea
> --
> peace,
> tish
>
> Because life is too short. Because existence should be enjoyed, not just
> endured. Because there never is enough time. Because every moment is
> gorgeous. Because it should all be celebrated to the max!

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:06:05 -0400 'tish'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:

>hi, i want to take my audio cassettes and make them into CD's.
>i thought that i would use a program Ditope's Media Digitalizer but it
>is costly.
>
>i then saw Audiograbber 1.83 http://tinyurl.com/mpvhe
>
>has anyone any thoughts or has used the free program? what are it's good
>points and bad. Or do you have an alternate idea

I use AG for all my cassette and vinyl to the PC. Works great.
Use the line-in facility from your cassettes player through and
amplifier.

If you go from cassette directly to MP3, artifacts will remain -
cassettes are often hissy and have wrong normalisaton levels and
vinyl can have crackles, pops and clicks etc.

I'd recommend you do it in two stages 1) line-in to WAV files
then clean them up and 2) convert cleaned WAVs to MP3.

"tish" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:NuOzg.6$(E-Mail Removed)...
> hi, i want to take my audio cassettes and make them into CD's.
> i thought that i would use a program Ditope's Media Digitalizer but it is
> costly.
>
> i then saw Audiograbber 1.83 http://tinyurl.com/mpvhe
>
> has anyone any thoughts or has used the free program? what are it's good
> points and bad. Or do you have an alternate idea
> --
> peace,
> tish
>
I converted many LPs and cassettes to my hard drive successfully and easily
with AudioGrabber. My next step that I do is to use Audacity (free at
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows) which digitally displays
the audio. With Audacity, I can edit and trim the beginning and the ending
entrances. I play the track back through Audacity and clear out record pops
and any unwanted things. Then with Audacity, I save it back on the hard
drive as a .WAV file, then burn in a CD with the selections of my choice.

Dave C.

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 06:27:46 -0400, "Dave C." <myaddress.net> wrote:

> I converted many LPs and cassettes to my hard drive successfully and easily
> with AudioGrabber. My next step that I do is to use Audacity (free at
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows) which digitally displays
> the audio. With Audacity, I can edit and trim the beginning and the ending
> entrances. I play the track back through Audacity and clear out record pops
> and any unwanted things. Then with Audacity, I save it back on the hard
> drive as a .WAV file, then burn in a CD with the selections of my choice.

Another good tool to have is mpTrim

http://www.mptrim.com/

Freeware version has a file size limit of 7 minutes, but it's useful
if you want to cut/fade the beginnings and/or endings of MP3 files.


--
Ron M.

Dave C. schreef:

> I play the track back through Audacity and clear out record pops
> and any unwanted things.

Any tips on how to "properly" clean up recordings with Audacity?
I've had mixed (no pun intended) results. After a few hours my ears were
getting somewhat tired, so I could't accurately tell the difference :-)

So I was wondering if there are things in Audacity one should always do,
or tools/menu-options one should always use when cleaning up audio.

Can you tell me which screen has the settings to make it start pause start
automatically? And
which setting makes it split tracks?
Thanks.


"Soren Hedeby Sorensen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> tish <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>hi, i want to take my audio cassettes and make them into CD's.
>>i thought that i would use a program Ditope's Media Digitalizer but it
>>is costly.
>>
>>i then saw Audiograbber 1.83 http://tinyurl.com/mpvhe
>>
>>has anyone any thoughts or has used the free program? what are it's good
>>points and bad. Or do you have an alternate idea
>
>
> Used it for recording some of my old LP's. Starts recording when the
> LP starts playing, pause when the LP stops, turn the LP, starts again
> automatically when the LP starts again. And split into tracks
> automatically. SUPER.
>
> Søren H. Sørensen, Viborg
> (slet FJERN fra min e-mail adresse)

tish <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> what are it's good
> points and bad. Or do you have an alternate idea

Bad: no error correction.

Alternative: EAC.
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Get an older version (0.95 beta 3), which allows ripping copy
protected cd's (sometimes):
http://www.dachboden-wg.de/dlm/download2.php?id=239

See also http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac03.htm

S.O. Meone

S.O. Meone wrote:
> tish <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> what are it's good
>> points and bad. Or do you have an alternate idea
>
> Bad: no error correction.
>
> Alternative: EAC.
> http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
>
> Get an older version (0.95 beta 3), which allows ripping copy
> protected cd's (sometimes):
> http://www.dachboden-wg.de/dlm/download2.php?id=239
>
> See also http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac03.htm
>
> S.O. Meone

thanks...i will check it out!

--
peace,
tish

Because life is too short. Because existence should be enjoyed, not just
endured. Because there never is enough time. Because every moment is
gorgeous. Because it should all be celebrated to the max!