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[Swordsman74]

Hi all,
  I have nearly 200 tapes that I want to listen to through MJ.  I connected a tape deck and started using APE format to record them.  Then I looked at the file sizes....  My question is: is it really worth having that much sound quality saved from a medium that is not high-quality sound in the first place?  I record all of my CD's to APE, but doing the same for my tapes seemed a waste...
Any thoughts?  Has anyone done any comparisions?

Swordsman74

[KingSparta]

>> My question is: is it really worth having that much sound
>> quality saved from a medium that is not high-quality sound
>> in the first place?
No, Stop It

>> I record all of my CD's to APE
Good Man, Matt Loves You So Does Maxtor

[Matt]

Well, even if you encode a really bad, noisy recording with a lossy codec, you can still hear a difference between the bad, noisy recording and the lossy, bad, noisy recording.

That's not to say that the difference is a big deal.

So, I guess it just depends.  I know, I'm a big help...

-Matt

[zevele1]

I am not sure about it.
If you use APE let say you keep the quality of the tape.Even if it is  the low quality of tapes
But if you reduce the quality of the tape ,is it better?

Maybe i say a stupid thing ,but maybe a loss format can 'eliminate' the imperfection of the tapes
Anyway you have some tapes on APE ,so try some conversion and you will see

If the 'tapes' are to stay on your computer,have a try to ORG

You do not get any 'vroum ' noise from the tape desk?

Listening to TV-boom bomm again

I started my post before i saw the Matt's one