Hey Nolan: Could we get a bit of a tutorial on this? With beach season kicking up into high gear, I'd dearly *love* to dump a lot of NLS books onto my 2GB flashcard loaded bookport! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nolan Crabb" <ncrabb@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:59 PM Subject: [bookport] Converting NLS Magazines to MP3 for Use in the Book Port > Hi, everyone. > > Yesterday I posed a question about converting NLS magazines from cassette > to > Book Port-ready MP3 audio using Sound Forge. My heart-felt thanks to > Pshon > Barrett, whose name I've probably inadvertently misspelled, for forwarding > my message on to a mutual friend, who gave me lots of help with the pitch > problem. > > Just wanted you to know that I've created my first set of MP3 files from > an > NLS magazine today, and all four tracks sound wonderful in a Book Port at > 24 > KBPS. My next step is to learn how to use the noise reduction plug-in > with > Sound Forge to reduce some of the crosstalk I get from my handicassette. > > The solution is incredibly simple, so if you use Sound Forge 8 and want to > communicate about this off list, please don't hesitate to write. > > Nolan, who is now truly liberated from his clunky, analog cassette reading > system! :-) > > >