Cassette to Cd

[anyhow]

Just a little feed back on some of the programs I have tried to record
cassettes

To my Pc to turn into CD's

1. Audiograbber seemed like a promising program but I could not get it to
tape correctly

When I did get a recording I had no sound. Thought it had a wealth of info
on their site it did not work for me very complicated and I still don't
understand why the penguins dance on it

2.Digitope Media Digitalizer(2.5) Was a trial period of 10 days I used the
10 days up in a matter of a couple of hours trying to get it set up
correctly. Each time a Got a error message it shut down and another day was
used. Also very complicated when manually

Setting up soundcard and input jacks. Could not wait to get this off my
computer.

3. Audacity was way to technical I tried reading the help manual but it did
not help.

I never was able to get a recording from it . I also could not hear what was
recording

Process. This program did many different things but it did not work for me.

All I was looking for was a simple program to tape cassettes to cd .

I don't believe that they make a simple program without all the bells and
whistles

That a regular person can comfortable use. Instant music really stinks but
at the very least it does record.

sparky

 

[The Wizard]

Just a little feed back on some of the programs I have tried to record
cassettes

To my Pc to turn into CD's

1. Audiograbber seemed like a promising program but I could not get it to
tape correctly

When I did get a recording I had no sound. Thought it had a wealth of info
on their site it did not work for me very complicated and I still don't
understand why the penguins dance on it

2.Digitope Media Digitalizer(2.5) Was a trial period of 10 days I used the
10 days up in a matter of a couple of hours trying to get it set up
correctly. Each time a Got a error message it shut down and another day
was used. Also very complicated when manually

Setting up soundcard and input jacks. Could not wait to get this off my
computer.

3. Audacity was way to technical I tried reading the help manual but it
did not help.

I never was able to get a recording from it . I also could not hear what
was recording

Process. This program did many different things but it did not work for
me.

All I was looking for was a simple program to tape cassettes to cd .

I don't believe that they make a simple program without all the bells and
whistles

That a regular person can comfortable use. Instant music really stinks but
at the very least it does record.

Not sure if it's still around as I've not used it for quite a few years now.

Dart Audio Pro used to be pretty easy to use and had a filter to get rid of
unwanted tape hiss.

The hardest task I came across was setting the sound cards input level from
Line In as there's no real way of monitoring it for distortion as it seems
the headphone/output socket just loops straight through unlike the older
tape decks.

I used to record a few seconds (or until any high sections of music came
through) then play it back until I'd got a happy medium.

T.W.

 

[Aldap]

Just a little feed back on some of the programs I have tried to record
cassettes

To my Pc to turn into CD's



Try this program Messer it's very user friendly with control for line

in volume
Process. This program did many different things but it did not work
for me.

 

[Aldap]

 

[Brian]

Just a little feed back on some of the programs I have tried to record
cassettes

To my Pc to turn into CD's

1. Audiograbber seemed like a promising program but I could not get it to
tape correctly

When I did get a recording I had no sound. Thought it had a wealth of info
on their site it did not work for me very complicated and I still don't
understand why the penguins dance on it

sparky

Hi Sparky,
I have used Audio grabber for doing just what you want.
This is the steps that I follow;
1. make sure that you have your output line on your cassette player (i
use an old walkman) going to the microphone input on your sound card.
2. open Audio grabber and go to file (inline sampling). click on mixer
to see if the microphone is selected.
3. I usually don't select auto split tracks . I do mostly audio books .
If you are doing music tapes it might work. if you know the length of
the track you can use auto stop after xx minutes.
4. Start your tape and hit record.
The penguin thing is for the look up for CD tracks (free database).
Unfortunately this does not work for the inline sampling. To the right
in the inline sampling you can add the name of the track. I find that
you can do this until the track is finished or put them in prior to
recording.

You may have to play around with the volume to get what you want.

Hope this helps.


Brian

 

[Fred]

Hi Sparky,
I have used Audio grabber for doing just what you want.
This is the steps that I follow;
1. make sure that you have your output line on your cassette player (i use
an old walkman) going to the microphone input on your sound card.
2. open Audio grabber and go to file (inline sampling). click on mixer to
see if the microphone is selected.
3. I usually don't select auto split tracks . I do mostly audio books .
If you are doing music tapes it might work. if you know the length of the
track you can use auto stop after xx minutes.
4. Start your tape and hit record.
The penguin thing is for the look up for CD tracks (free database).
Unfortunately this does not work for the inline sampling. To the right in
the inline sampling you can add the name of the track. I find that you can
do this until the track is finished or put them in prior to recording.

You may have to play around with the volume to get what you want.

Hope this helps.


Brian

I use wave repair. It's free to download to use in evaluation mode. I have
been using it in 'evaluation mode' for more than a year. It's easy to
operate once yo've played around for a few minutes. I've also used CDex
quite successfully. Also free.

 

[Brian]

I use wave repair. It's free to download to use in evaluation mode. I have
been using it in 'evaluation mode' for more than a year. It's easy to
operate once yo've played around for a few minutes. I've also used CDex
quite successfully. Also free.

Interesting Fred. I've used CDex before but haven't heard of wave
repair. Going to have to look at it.

Thanks for the info.

Brian

 

[anyhow]

Interesting Fred. I've used CDex before but haven't heard of wave repair.
Going to have to look at it.

Thanks for the info.

Brian

I will take another look at audiograbber but I have been using a usb hookup
from my tape deck to
Pc. I wondered why the only setting was microphone. It seems to me
audiograbber did not pick up any sound coming through my sound card. I will
try it again but according to your comments it appears that I have to
purchase another
cord w/ single prong on either endd
thanks
sparky