[access-uk] Re: internal tapedeck for pc?
- From: "John Wilson" <jwjw@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 20:13:35 -0000
Hello Kevin,
I'm not wanting to knock this device overmuch but, to be honest,
it looks like a fairly expensive way of doing exactly what you
can simply do via your sound card's Mic and Line In jacks, a
tape recorder and any free or inexpensive software, such as
Winamp 5, CDEX 1.5 or GoldWave 5 and you won't have the problem
with Dolby, crome tapes, etc. Additionally, is the software
which comes with this device accessible?
Still, no doubt, it will appeal to some people.
Regards,
John.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin and emma" <kream@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: [access-uk] internal tapedeck for pc?
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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