I happen to convert some 90 min tapes to cd this weekend for a friend. each 45 min side was run out of the headphone jack of an old panosonic reciever /tape deck adn then into a griffin imic (usb). I used a shareware software to record the line-in (sound studio I think was the name. i downloaded it from Apple.com). Each 45 min side took about 250 MB at stereo 44Mhz, 16 bit in AIFF format ( think is was bits. My choice was 8 or 16) I used Roxio to convert to CD as it was burned. Don't worry about the size of the file so much as the time. Most CD-R's hold 70 - 80 minutes of music / sound. They sound alright but I wasn't familiar with the material so it is hard to tell for sure.
matt --- Bill Rising <brising at Louisville.edu> wrote: > On 10/20/03 9:17, Dan Crutcher wrote > > >Well, I might do that but most of these songs are rather obscure and old > >-- not ones that I'm likely to find on iTunes or any other online service, > >legal or not. > > > > I've had reasonable success running cables out of the tape-out, through > an RCA-to-mini converter and into the Audio In port on my old G4, > recording everything with bias peak LE (worked on my older mac II si, > though under the old MacOS I used some other software whose name escapes > me). I haven't heard any more distortion than was normal with the tapes > on my none-too-fancy tape player. > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be October 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
