For Those Of You Who Keep Going On About The Fantastic Compilations You Made Years Ago...
Posted by iamnotthebeatles on 11 December 2007 - 4:10pm.
It looks like you have finally found what you want for Christmas :
http://www.firebox.com/product/1849?src_t=t20
It even has slow opening doors...
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Right.
If anyone buys this, let me know. I have one cassette I'd like a digital copy of. Seriously. I'll pay in beer.
99 of us
should put £1 in each - then we could work out the best way for it to traverse around the country doing it's good deeds to the next nearest person.
The Good USB Samaritan, essentially.
Cassette to CD-R
Hi Fraser,
If you want a CD copy of a ropy old cassette, I'll happily run one off for you, free of charge; I've got the kit already set up here. Drop a line to mDOTstuddenATBTInternetDOTcom.
Thanks for the offer
But I think I'm now covered - I just bought one of the iMic gizmos Chris G mentions below.
an alternative
I just use a usb gizmo called Imic which lets me rip tracks to my lap top hardrive it works fine and only cost £24 (i had a deck already). Also does vinyl and mindisc format fans.
Imic Gimmic
Chris G,
Tell me more; can I assume they're readily available?
I'm not averse to spending the moolah you understand (okay, I am), but if there's something smaller and just as effective...
I too only have a few tapes left, but one of them is Lizzy recorded from the Friday Rock Show in 19XX and it would be great to hear it again.
Imic corner
As I've only a laptop with no sound card input I needed a usb soundcard ( i already have a turntable and tapedeck), most usb soundcards are designed for musicians to plug in guitars etc. But the Imic by Griffin is designed for ripping vinyl etc it's a little white box with normal jack inputs and usb cable. You just plug it into your aux outputs or earphone socket on your stereo and then plug it into the usb socket on your pc. With the audacity software which is free and easy to use you can record audio and even take the odd crackle off.
The imic works in reverse too so you can plug better speakers into you comp for better sound. I posted more about this on my other blog but i get told off for "selfposting"! Hope this is off use they work for macs as well.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic
Thank you muchly
I shall add it as an emergency requirement for the festive season.
If you've got one of those
If you've got one of those USB record decks, there's usually a socket that lets you plug in a cassette player and converts the output to mp3, so don't go buying the same thing twice. (I know, because I've done it - and my old 1979 JVC tape deck did have slow opening doors).
I put this up a few months ago, cut from an old bootleg Pete & Dud cassette to mp3. I'll post some more one day if you don't mind the swearing.
Great find though, iamnotthebeatles.
Dubly?
I hope it has noise reduction on it (Dolby B and C, naturally, none of your dbx).
Actually I have some fancy noise reduction software that I use to clean up old cassettes.