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I have two questions, and appreciate any help that you can offer.
1. I have a few tapes that I want to transfer to digital format. I attempted to do so using the sound recorder that comes with Windows. Results were very poor. Recording was way too low and quality too poor to enjoy. Is there a simple way to do this with better results for someone who is not too familiar with such procedures?
2. I have a few hundred tapes, less important to me, that I would transfer if there was a way to do so that was not too difficult. Is there any device that I can buy that would do a high speed conversion from the old analog tape format to a digital one?
Yes, there are such devices.
High speed audio devices are very costly, they start at about $1,400. There are USB regular speed converters, they’re about $30 – $50. Most of them come with a kit – so it will guide you how to get the best recording possible.
Google “2013 Best Cassette to MP3 Converter Comparisons and Reviews”.
If you use high speed, you will lose sound quality. It might be okay for speech, but not for music.
u can get a simple cord n plug a tape player’s headphone output into the computer’s sound input. Not dbl speed though. You can download audacity (free i think) as a decent sound program/recorder
I know a service that does it for $5 a tape.
Did you connect the ‘audio out’ headphone jack on the tape player to the microphone port on your computer?
To get a good transfer you need a tape player with an audio-out jack and a sound card with an audio-in jack. If your tape player only has a headphone jack or your sound card only has a microphone jack you need an attenuating cable but it still won’t give you the same quality (but good enough for speeches).
I think that you can do it in Costco for pretty cheap.
If you live near me, you can use the service I know about.
Mods… is there any way I can contact Harotzehbilumshmo?
I know someone good in Israel (kiryat sefer) that both digitizes it and works on the sound quality. Mods – how do we give specifics?
Check out the Vktech Mini USB Audio Capture Adapter Converter for Music Laptop PCR1BO for a low cost option.
It plugs into the USB port, not the audio/microphone in jack.
Let me know how it is, please.
I have a little machine made a company called “ion” that does just this. It is called “tape express”
It looks like an old style Walkman that plays the tapes to the computer whilst the computer records the cassette as an mp3 format.
I bought this on ebay.
Only drawback is that there is no facility to speed up the process.
I bought an ion tape to digital converter about 2 years ago, but I have never been able to get it to work properly – the tracks come out all out of order. This is especially a problem for story tapes. Do you have any idea what I can do to get it right?
TorahMom, can you change the file names to be in order?
I actually did reorder the tracks with one tape, but it was very time consuming. I would think that it would keep the order of the tracks the tape is played in. Why would it mix them up?
How does it name them?
I would have to see the software, but I would guess that there’s a setting to control how the files are named
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