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Networks and Remotes => Media Network => Topic started by: Al ex on January 31, 2014, 02:03:05 pm

Title: Transfer a music tape to FLAC or MP3?
Post by: Al ex on January 31, 2014, 02:03:05 pm: Hi,
today I found a really great music tape in my archive - about 20 years old, done by a professional DJ - still very nice, hearable stuff! So I was wondering how I could digitize the tape into FLAC or MP3?

I thought about buying a simple audio cable - connecting it to my old "Ghettoblaster" earphone out and on the other end on my laptop microphone in?

I assume there is no record function in JRiver, right?
Which freeware-program would you recommend to transfer analog tapes via analog cable into digital format?

Thx
Title: Re: Transfer a music tape to FLAC or MP3?
Post by: Ninouchka on January 31, 2014, 02:16:13 pm: You can with windows sound recorder.
Click the start button, select, search programs and folders, and typ in, sound recorder.
it is basic, so you can use MC do trim the beginning and ending and convert it to flac if you want.

Greetings.
Title: Re: Transfer a music tape to FLAC or MP3?
Post by: Al ex on January 31, 2014, 02:23:17 pm: Great - thanks for the tip! Will try asap... :)
Title: Re: Transfer a music tape to FLAC or MP3?
Post by: astromo on January 31, 2014, 03:02:15 pm: Your other option if you want some sophisticated tools is Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).
Title: Re: Transfer a music tape to FLAC or MP3?
Post by: Al ex on February 01, 2014, 05:13:40 am: Quote from: astromo on January 31, 2014, 03:02:15 pm
Your other option if you want some sophisticated tools is Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).

Just made a test with Audacity - works like a charm, thanks!
Title: Re: Transfer a music tape to FLAC or MP3?
Post by: csimon on February 01, 2014, 06:34:03 pm: Yep, I vote for Audacity too, been using it for a long time! There are other pieces of software that are designed for digitising vinyl and tapes that will recognise gaps and do clean-ups etc, but to be honest I prefer to do it myself as I know what it's doing then! But I think probably for best quality you should use a line-level output from a tape player and a line-level input on a PC if possible, rather than earphone and microphone connections. Can't give a technical reason why, it's just a gut feeling that those should be better!
Title: Re: Transfer a music tape to FLAC or MP3?
Post by: Deping on February 02, 2014, 05:09:50 pm: I check on amazon there are many different products to conver tape to mp3.I found brand like ION,DB,TaoTronics,Coby,Belkin etc