The actual process or bringing the audio in should require no extra
hardware or software. As was previously stated, use a standard consumer
stand-alone tape deck that has the typical RCA left and right out and
use an RCA to mini headphone cable to run that to the audio in jack on
your computer. You don't want speaker or headphone output as the signal
would be too hot and cause distorted audio. To record you could use
little more than QuickTime Player and choose New Audio Recording from
the File menu. In the audio recording window you'll find a Start
Recording button and to the right of that a Recording Options menu. From
that menu, make sure you have checkmarked Built-in Input Line-In and not
the Microphone. After that start recording and then press play on your
tape deck. When you're done recording just quit Quicktime. There is
nothing to save as it writes stuff out to your hard drive as it goes
along. You should have a file called Audio Recoding in your Movies
folder unless you changed some preferences. That file will be an AIFF
which is uncompressed high quality. You can then edit that with any
number of previously mentioned tools or just bring it into iTunes to
convert to mp3.
CB
On 2/5/12 7:20 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
The short answer is, Yes. You should use Audio High-Jack Pro to bring the
music into your Mac. You would need a typical home stereo tape deck or any
tape player with RCA outputs. I guess that you could use a tape player with a
headphone out, but the quality would be diminished when using this method.
My suggestion would be to use the home stereo style tape deck. Connect a
stereo RCA to 1/8 inch headphone jack style cable between the tape deck and the
computer. The RCA jacks connect to the left and right outs from the tape deck
and put the 1/8 inch jack into the line-in of the Mac. Start up Audio
High-Jack Pro, select Line-In as your Input source and begin recording. You
can then use Audacity, Amadeus Pro or Fission as your audio editor to trim
everything up.
That should do it.
Later...
On 2012-02-05, at 12:50 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
Hi guys:
Is it possible for a blind person to convert tapes to MP3 files using a Mac
with Voiceover? If so, what is needed to do this, and what is the process?
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