I am not familiar with the converters, but you don't actually need
any additional hardware.
I converted a dozen or so audio music tapes some years ago; just
connect the audio out of a standard cassette tape player to the
audio in of your sound card and use something like audacity (IIRC)
to record.
There was tedium in loading the tapes and starting the recording,
and in isolating the tracks (IIRC, I recorded the whole side of the
cassette to an non-lossy/uncompressed format and then extracted
each track), and then transcoding to MP3 (IIRC the only supported
recording formats were uncompressed (or maybe I chose uncompressed
because of track extraction)).
The converters might be useful if you have a lot of tapes to do,
but if it is not that many, you might wish to just do it manually.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Judah Milgram wrote:
A question to liven up the dog days of summer.
I'm considering solutions to convert some cassette tapes to MP3. Turns out
for not a lot of money you can get something that converts directly, see for
example
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018WBUJBS
The question is... Linux?
Some put the MP3's directly on a flash drive, and I guess that's a good bet.
But others seem to require connection to a computer... is it likely that that
they send a digital stream over the cable? And if so... is it likely to be
set-uppable on Linux?
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