newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6381 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 9 of 13 18 October 2011 at 10:12am | IP Logged |
Thanks, the audacity guide is very helpful because it tells you how to set the ideal input volume.
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montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 10 of 13 18 October 2011 at 3:48pm | IP Logged |
Audacity is indeed a great program.
Note that the manual refers to the "stable" version.
I think that these days, the "beta" version is to be preferred (1.3.13 last time I
looked).
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dmaddock1 Senior Member United States Joined 5435 days ago 174 posts - 426 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Esperanto, Latin, Ancient Greek
| Message 11 of 13 18 October 2011 at 5:52pm | IP Logged |
I use one of these tape-to-usb players which I had to buy because I no longer owned an actual tape deck. It works pretty well though. You can use it with Audacity and, since it is USB, you don't have to deal with the input volume issues mentioned above.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 12 of 13 18 October 2011 at 6:00pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the tip on the USB-powered converter. Since my computer doesn't have a line-in, I'm keen on digitalizing privately some old cassettes that were never transferred properly to CD by the recording company.
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montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 13 of 13 19 October 2011 at 1:55pm | IP Logged |
Oh, again on Audacity, check out YouTube for Audacity tutorials. There is one particular
guy who has done a whole series of them, aimed at Librivox volunteer readers. However,
you would learn a lot about Audacity generally from them.
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