Isn't a USB audio interface even a better idea than an internal sound card?
They can be fairly cheap.
Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert,
This looks like a good plan. Thanks for the advice from a voice of
experience.
Richard P.
Robert wrote:
My two cents:
If I were doing this, I
Car Talk is currently available as a podcast. So you don't have to record it
in real time. You get two weeks to download a performance.
Fred Holmes
At 02:37 PM 12/30/2007, Steve at Verizon wrote:
I was a happy Total Recorder user. I used it to capture streaming audio (like
Car Talk on WAMU).
Thank you, thank you, thank you...
iTunes used to have only a five minute highlight call for free. And the
only way to get the entire show was to pay for it through Audible.com.
Hence Total Recorder.
They must have made it available since the last time I checked. Great news!
John Duncan
The original poster asked how to convert and transfer ANALOG sources
to digital format for both archival purposes as well as casual use
with iTunes...
Well not exactly. Richard's question was...
What is the best way to save cassettes/records to an external
hard drive for future use (dubbing
On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
So I interpret best way as least difficult way to achieve sufficient
quality for use in a CD player.
I leave it to Richard to improve on this definition.
You are right. Best way is open to conjecture.
Let's go back to digital cameras for a
To clarify, I want to be able to transfer my cassette/record music
content to CD's so I can have access to my music in the future. I would
prefer that what goes to the CD be in the highest quality possible.
Along the way, I would put some of the music to iPod for my
personal/portable use,
My two cents:
If I were doing this, I would first copy cassette or records to the WAV
format using a high-quality computer sound card. The sound card might
have its own WAV program, or you could use Audacity.
Next, I would use an audio clean-up program to remove hiss, pops, and
scratches.
I'm not hearing any pops. May be your connection.
On Jan 2, 2008 6:59 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone is interested, you can compare the sound quality of a high
bitrate and a low bitrate music mp3 at a web site for which I serve as
web dunce.
The web address is:
I am not an audiophile, but I always enjoyed wonderful music.
Um, that's not exactly accurate based on the rest of your post.
Face it, Stewart, you ARE an audiophile :-).
However I have lost parts of my hearing over time as I served with
line units in the army reserve.
Thank you for your
You can, Betty can, Steve can, I can. That is evidence. Some have
better equipment than others. Some have hearing impairment to a
greater or lesser degree. But the bottom line is that MP3 sucks, from
an audio quality standpoint.
A high-bit-rate MP3 is just fine. No need to torture ourselves
I can listen to some MP3's and tell you they are inferior by how they
sound.
Of course, MP3s can be compressed to greater or lesser degrees and this
can be misused. If you use a setting intended for spoken voice recordings
for orchestral work it is going to sound terrible. If you the same
It is not just the bit rate that determines the quality of an MP3.
It is also the quality of the source.
I went through and listened to a few MP3's the other day to see if I
could tell the difference between bit rate and I could not. But
there are some inherent problems with way the MP3's
On Jan 1, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
A high-bit-rate MP3 is just fine. No need to torture ourselves to reach
some imaginary standard of purity. If you need a machine to detect
something you can not hear it is really pointless. Music is intended
for
the enjoyment of humans, not to
I think you sent this to me, instead of to cgz.
when I fly, i want to kill as much sound as possible. i use shure isolation
phones. I cannot hear pilot or FA announcemsnts. cannot hear those damned
babies crying or those asshole conversations for hours on end. i usually fly
I also want to be able to make
cd's out of my records/tapes and I don't know that this is easily doable
in iTunes.
Stick a blank CD into the Mac while running iTunes and press record.
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Another reason for me to get a Mac one day but until then I'll just have
to be envious.
Richard P.
I also want to be able to make
cd's out of my records/tapes and I don't know that this is easily doable
in iTunes.
Stick a blank CD into the Mac while running iTunes and press record.
Not all MP3 encoding software is created equally.
Amen.
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I think it works on a PC running iTunes as well.
On Jan 1, 2008 4:21 PM, Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another reason for me to get a Mac one day but until then I'll just have
to be envious.
Richard P.
I also want to be able to make
cd's out of my records/tapes and I don't know
Horse manure.
A high-bit-rate MP3 is just fine. No need to torture ourselves to reach
some imaginary standard of purity. If you need a machine to detect
something you can not hear it is really pointless. Music is intended for
the enjoyment of humans, not to please machines.
There is
I've read there are tagging problems with AIFF...do you have any issues?
Personally for quality I use FLAC.
Mike
On Dec 29, 2007 11:50 PM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Richard P. wrote:
So let me start over. I know next to nothing about recording music
On Dec 30, 2007, at 8:41 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
A friend of mine does TV commercials. She uses Audacity,
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/, for sound recording, mixing and
editing [AIFF uncompressed], and Final Cut Pro for video.
For what it is worth, I have been using Audacity for a few years
If you are going to take that position then you would not be digitizing
from anything less than the original master recording. So as I said
before: is this being done for a personal music collection or for the
Smithsonian?
I thought I was discussing playback of material all ready in the
Fortunately or otherwise ( ;-) ), I still have most of my hearing. My
occasional job requires this as an audio technician. I use a great pair
of headphones for fieldwork which also work great at home. They block
out the external noise as described below. Remote Audio HN-7506 headphones:
Use Audacity to record, clean up and edit into individual tracks,
then use the EXPORT option to save the files in .WAV format. Convert
the .Wav files with iTunes at your preferred bit rate. 128k is the
default and is adequate for headphone listening while jogging or
plugging into the car
So let me start over. I know next to nothing about recording music to
iPods. What is the best way to save cassettes/records to an external
hard drive for future use (dubbing high quality to CD's), as well as put
them into iPod/iTunes for listening. I already have the hardware (USB
Lossy formats like MP3 have much smaller file sizes because they
remove extra information based on psycho-acoustic theory.
Yeah. That sounds great--in theory.
I don't claim to have golden ears, but I've been around music and
recording for quite a while. The First Commandment is: Thou shalt
There's a thing called Total Recorder (trialfree).
Nokia has a media converter that's not2bad.
There's also a free dld called SuperC (French company) which has lost of
options.
You will need, of course, a good cassette player (Check out used Sony WM-D6C
with dolbyBC) on eBay (without C you only
rlsimon wrote:
There's a thing called Total Recorder (trialfree).
I was a happy Total Recorder user. I used it to capture streaming audio
(like Car Talk on WAMU). I recently wanted to get the Pro version, as it
had both starting and ending time set function. The High Criteria url is
no
Now that Car Talk podcasts for free so it is available through iTunes
and other podcasting clients why bother.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=titlevalue=c
Of course the show that doesn't Podcast yet that I want is _Calling
All Pets_ and it is on at the most inconvenient
On Dec 30, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
People have gotten used to MP3, also. Well, fool them twice, oh yeah.
Well stated.
Steve
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There's a thing called Total Recorder (trialfree).
Nokia has a media converter that's not2bad.
There's also a free dld called SuperC (French company) which has lost of
options.
You will need, of course, a good cassette player (Check out used Sony WM-D6C
with dolbyBC) on eBay (without C you only
Why wma for permanent archive?
Mike
On Dec 29, 2007 2:12 PM, Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to all for helping me choose an iPod Nano, as well as the
turntable converter. Now comes the task of getting my existing music
into it. CD's are fine, converting to WMA for permanent
It seemed to be the default setting for Windows Media Player. I have no
particular allegiance to this format other than wanting the files stored
on the PC's external hard drive as a backup. Storing them with iTunes is
not preferred due to the fact that they are MP3 files and inaccessible
It seemed to be the default setting for Windows Media Player. I have no
particular allegiance to this format other than wanting the files stored
on the PC's external hard drive as a backup. Storing them with iTunes is
not preferred due to the fact that they are MP3 files and inaccessible
On Dec 29, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Richard P. wrote:
It seemed to be the default setting for Windows Media Player. I have
no particular allegiance to this format other than wanting the files
stored on the PC's external hard drive as a backup. Storing them with
iTunes is not preferred due to the
It seemed to be the default setting for Windows Media Player. I
have no particular allegiance to this format other than wanting the
files stored on the PC's external hard drive as a backup. Storing
them with iTunes is not preferred due to the fact that they are MP3
files and inaccessible except
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