Try Gold Wave, since your space is limited, it may be the easiest solution. You might want to try out a free solution, cdex, available from: http://www.jfwlite.com/programs which can record from your computer directly into mp3 format. If you're going to make CDS from those, I'd record to *.wav first, then to your CD though *.wav files are about 12 times larger than mp3 but no loss or audio changes in quality can be heard if you use 44,100Hz sampling at 16bit. If you wish to play around with audio a good bit, Sue, you should think about using a larger hard drive since 20Gigabytes will get used up in a good bit of a hurry. :) <grin> One side of a cassette, 45 minutes at that bit rate will take up half a gigabyte in *.wav format, and though a good bit smaller using *.mp3 format, you want the best quality in your CDS so you should, as I said earlier record to *.wav first, then rip them, and delete the *.wav or make them *.mp3s and go on from there to the next project. There are tutorials for GoldWave, and the registration is only $50 or so here in the United States, and it can automatically make files for you which would correspond to tracks on a cd from your audio tapes. You need cabling between your cassette machine's stereo output, probably 2 RCA jacks on the machine, to your computer's sound card input, probably a one-eighth inch stereo mini jack. Let us know if any of us can be of further assistance.
Curtis Delzer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:44 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 su ggestions 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]
