I am using almost the same setup as mentioned by the others mentioned here, but I have used a patch cable and am able to use either a headphone jack on a walkman, or the output on a library for the blind tape player for playing tapes. This doesn't make what they told you wrong, it is just another way of doing things with what you have. Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Ted Phillips -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:13 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Hello am looking for some advice in converting tapes to cd. Hello Sue, Your definitely on the right list for this. I recently did this and got a lot of help on it, it is definitely doable with the hardware you have. I have a machine with 256 mb of ram and a 20 gig hard disk and it worked fine. How much are you planning to bring over i mean length of the tape? What i use is a program called Goldwave, as recommended by several on this list. I love it, there's in my opinion a lot to learn, but you can tackle just what you need and learn the more advanced stuff later. You'll need a cable going from the RCA outs on your tape deck, and i don't recommend a walk man, if you have one a stereo deck would be best. Anyway, the cable, and again was pointed out by a member of this list, is called a Stereo Y jack, it has two RCA connections that go in the RCA outs on the stereo deck, to an 1/8 inch connector on the other end, that goes in to the line in on your sound card. Hth Dave. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:44 PM Subject: Hello am looking for some advice in converting tapes to cd. > Hello my name is Sue. Hope I could find some friendly people here on this > list. Hopefully some of you are visually impaired and could help me out. I > recently got a cd burner and am loving it. Am using this program from > Readingmadeeasy.com. It allows me to create data and audio cds. What I > would like to do is somehow convert my tapes to MP3 format then I could > transfer to cd. I did look at two programs which are audio grabber and > audacity. Since I only have a 20 GB hard drive with 256 MB of ramcould > this work? Also if I were going to do this I also know I would need some > sort of cable to go from my computer to my tape deck. I do have a tape > player about the size of the walkman, could I use that? What kind of cable > would I need. Also am using Window Eyes and since am looking at those > programs I have mentioned, I did look at the memory and the space they > would take up. Would this work? Am looking at an hour tape to convert to > cd. I am also running Windows XP. So if anyone has suggestions on how to > do this since this is my first time in making cds and loving it. Thank > you. > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
