[access-uk] internal tapedeck for pc?
- From: "kevin and emma" <kream@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:53:07 -0000
got this on another list looks interesting! anyone come across anything like
this before? the website for the deck is at the bottom of the article.
>>Subject: Read and write audio cassettes on a pc
>>http://www.computeramerica.com/content/columns/craig/2004/2004-10-25.htm
>>>
>>>Craig Crossman, National Newspaper Computer Columnist
>>>
>>>CASSETTES ARE NEVER COMING BACK
>>>
>>>We live in a digital age and no where is that more apparent than in the
>>>world of recorded music. Analog media such as vinyl records and cassette
>>>tapes are all but extinct. Walk in to any record store today and all you
>>>see are CDs and DVDs. MP3 music files stream over the Internet, to be
>>>down loaded in to tiny MP3 players we carry in our pockets, stored on
>>>hard disk drives in our computers and burned onto optical media to be
>>>played on our stereo equipment.
>>>Yet you are out there and you all know who you are. You're the ones that
>>>still have a huge music collection of hundreds, even thousands of
>>>cassette tapes stored in closets, in storage boxes, or stacked neatly on
>>>tiny little shelves in some kind of display case. And while you may
>>>still locate some one to maintain your antique cassette player, you know
>>>that eventually your valuable collection is doomed to go the way of the
>>>78 RPM record and 8 Track tape. And that doesn't even factor in the fact
>>>that the magnetic tape inside all of your cassettes will eventually
>>>decompose and become useless any way.
>>>But fear not as there remains hope for your rapidly deteriorating
>>>cassette tape collection. Now there is the PlusDeck 2 made by BTO which
>>>stands for Beyond The Ordinary. The PlusDeck 2 is a fully functional
>>>cassette deck for your personal computer. The PlusDeck 2 is an internal
>>>drive that fits in to one of the available 5.25 drive bays inside your
>>>PC. After installation, you simply insert a cassette in to the drive.
>>>The included recording software allows you to transfer all of the music
>>>from the cassette directly to your computer's hard drive and converts it
>>>in to MP3 or WAV files. Once converted, you can do any thing with the
>>>files that you can do with any other digitally encoded music.
>>>The entire process of transferring a tape's contents to the computer
>>>only requires a few clicks of the mouse. Part of what makes it easy to
>>>convert the entire contents of a single tape is that the PlusDeck 2
>>>plays and records with Auto Reverse. You can easily play or record on
>>>sides A and B of the tape without ejecting it. On the down side,
>>>according to the company there is no support for cassettes that used
>>>some of the more advanced recording tape such as chrome or metal tapes.
>>>And tapes encoded with Dolby Noise Reduction are not supported either.
>>>However, you should be able to compensate for some of the loss of
>>>frequency response by using most any digital recording software that
>>>offers graphic equalization and sound filters.
>>>But even though the PlusDeck 2 falls a bit short, it's still a viable
>>>option if you own a large collection of music on cassettes. Plus you can
>>>use the PlusDeck 2 as a standard cassette player. Just pop one in and
>>>listen to the music directly from the tape through your PC's speakers.
>>>And if you just can't ever let go of the medium, you can actually take
>>>all of your computer's audio files and record them on to blank cassettes
>>>you insert in to the PlusDeck 2 if you can still find any. With the
>>>PlusDeck 2, at least you'll be able to play, store, preserve and enhance
>>>your cassette tape collection and bring your whole cassette library in
>>>to the standards of the present day. $149.99.
>>>http://www.plusdeck.com
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cheers - kevin
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