[muglo] Re: Converting Audio Tapes to CDs

Thank you Karl for your info. which was very helpful.

I finally downloaded Audacity (1.2.2) which seems to do everything that 
I wanted - record from my tape player through iMic and save the file in 
WAV or AIFF (or MP3 or Ogg Vorbis) and can then read them into iTunes.  
One thing though which is not clear is what format is used by regular 
audio tape players?  Is it WAV do you know?  In other words if I burn a 
CD to player on a CD Player what format should I use? Do you know?

Thanks again for your help and this follow up help if you can give it 
to me.

Paul

On Aug 16, 2004, at 9:42 AM, Karl Hochmann wrote:

> The process is relatively simple but requires a cable and some 
> software.
>
> The cable must have an RCA plug on one end and a mini plug on the other
> to connect to your computer's 'audio in'. (You probably play your audio
> tapes through a receiver which has an RCA 'audio out' socket in the
> front.)
>
> To digitize tapes or old records, I have used a Roxio program called
> Spin Doctor.
>
> I experiment. I digitize some music, adjust the volume meter to obtain
> results within the required limits, stop the process and play it back.
> If that sample sounds OK, I do the real thing. If the volume is not
> quite up to snuff, that can easily be improved on. That copy is
> uncompressed, of course.
>
> There is another piece of software named Audacity; it is also freeware.
> I use it to doctor volume and to trim useless silences at the beginning
> and end of a my digitized music. Audacity saves its music in its own
> format. To make it iTunes compatible, I use another freeware program,
> iTuner. Audacity will allow me to save files as AIFF. If I want MP3
> compression, and I do, I must have a program called LameLib, freeware.
>
> If you need additional info, contact me.
>
> I had an enormous collection of old, old 78s, 45s, and 33s, and I held
> on to them tenaciously. And I am glad I did. I now enjoy the music
> which I enjoyed many, many years ago.
>
> Karl
>
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