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IndieMatty
07-06-2005, 10:48 AM
Help me. I have no idea where to begin. I have a stereo which plays cassettes? I have an IRIVER IHP140 which has recording capabilities. Is this a start? Money is actually no object, so if I need software or whatever. I don't know.

Help.

(Also should this be posted in that new Computer forum? I hope not; That place scares me.)
MoreWineII
07-06-2005, 10:49 AM
What's this "cassette" you speak of?
IndieMatty
07-06-2005, 10:50 AM
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Don't know, but I have some rare recordings on one, and it's about to break.
Jersey Nick
07-06-2005, 10:51 AM
Audacity via Lifehacker (http://tinyurl.com/chat8)
KungFuSandwich
07-06-2005, 10:55 AM
BoringMatty
IndieMatty
07-06-2005, 10:56 AM
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Audacity via Lifehacker (http://tinyurl.com/chat8)

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Thanks!

Now umm how do I get the cassette out into the computer? I mean it when I say I have no idea.
Jersey Nick
07-06-2005, 10:56 AM
Details. (http://tinyurl.com/aglzb)
IndieMatty
07-06-2005, 10:57 AM
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BoringMatty

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This is not helpful.

But excellent, and well deserved reference.
IndieMatty
07-06-2005, 10:58 AM
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awesome. thanks. I owe you a coke.
KungFuSandwich
07-06-2005, 10:59 AM
Honestly Matty, What happened to the days of whores and black ninjas?
IndieMatty
07-06-2005, 11:01 AM
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Honestly Matty, What happened to the days of whores and black ninjas?

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I got old and discovered poker.
turnipmonster
07-06-2005, 11:02 AM
what you're going to do is download a program which does multitrack recording (audacity works great). then, you're going to run a line from your cassette player into the "microphone" input on your sound card. you'll probably need to get a mini to mini cable from radio shack to do this.

make sure the mic line level is turned up on your pc, fire up audacity and hit record, and push play on your tape deck. after some futzing around with volumes you just record the tape into audacity. save it as a wav since you probably want the original, you can also export to mp3 or whatever you use.

audacity shows you the sound wave as you're recording, so if you get a flat line you're probably not getting a signal. make sure to do some tests and make sure you're getting a signal from the tape deck into audacity. you will probably have to mess around with the windows mixer a little to do this.
--turnipmonster
IndieMatty
07-06-2005, 11:04 AM
Thanks. Look out for MP3's of Matty's early 90's hardcore band coming soon.