John Chambers wrote:
>
> John Chambers wrote:
>
> > But getting data from an analog medium into a disk file is generally
> > something that takes a lot of wizardry, no matter what the medium
> > might be. Most of the answers usually amount to "Pay me a whole lot
> > of money, and I'll do it for you, but I won't explain how to do it in
> > language that you can understand."
> >
>
> It's not so bad. If you are running windows you can use CoolEdit.
> You're cornering me into writing an FAQ :-)
>
>
> Not a bad idea. But CoolEdit doesn't seem to address the problem that
> the original question asked, and which I was (perhaps too subtly)
> getting at: Getting the bits off the analog medium and into the
> computer in ANY form is often a major hurdle. If your turntable has
> RCA plugs, and your computer doesn't have anything they fit into,
> what do you do? Yeah, you can wire together an adapter to get the
> signal into some port on your computer. But then what? For instance,
> I could easily take the conductors in a pair of two-wire cables and
> connect them to arbitrary pins in an RS-232 plug. This does get the
> signal into the computer,
Well, what I do is this: I record all of the records onto tapes. I have
a tape deck that has cables that are on one end RCA-type plugs, on the
other end they are mini-phono plugs. It's one of those big fat, grey
monster cables. The other kinds are no good, they pick up too much
static. I play the tape cassette. I sample the sound into Cool Edit. I
use Cool Edit to digitally clean up the sound. I then use Adaptec EZ-CD
Creator to burn them to CD. I can get a record onto CD within 2 hours
using that method.
I think you guys are making this more difficult then it needs to be.
:-)
Toby
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