On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 09:08 PM, Shannon Nugent wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with converting cassettes to CD's? I just read the article in MacAddict on how to do that. I've got some old tapes of me when I was little that I want to convert to preserve them. Also, I'm thinking of doing this as a service for other people. They say you need two audio out left and right channels on your stereo cassette deck. Our stereos only seem to have speaker jacks. Will that work? Is there a special (preferrably cheap) way to do that with those kind of jacks?I've been doing just this for the last couple of months. Our stereo has "line out" connectors (most do nowadays, even the kid's boom box has them) so it's been really simple. I got a "Y" connector at Radio Shack, from RCA jacks to stereo mini plug, and one of Griffin's iMic's. Works very slick. We use Peak LE 3.2 and it works very well with OS X and 9. Just plug the stereo into the iMic, plug that into an available USB port and you're good to go. Select the iMic as the input device in Sound preferences and that's it.
I'd be using the iMac for the first try since it has a microphone jack. Thats the one thing I don't like about new computers. You have to use special USB or firewire microphones. If it turns out fun on the iMac then I'll buy an iMic or something and do it on the G4.We've used this with a Summer 2000 iMac G3 300, a 600 MHz iBook and a Dual G4 wind tunnel. It works well with all of them. We got it to convert a large cassette tape library, but I have also tried it with LP's, radio broadcasts and CD's played on the stereo. Records just fine in all modes.
It's not professional level audio, but you can produce digital recordings that are the equal of the original tape cassettes and work great to add a bunch of old music to iTunes. The full version of Peak provides awesome audio editing capabilities but for home use the LE version is fine, and a lot easier on the pocketbook. PLus it is a lot of fun to resurrect some of the old songs we have in our tape collection. <G>
Jack Russell
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