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| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5479 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 37 07 June 2011 at 6:36pm | IP Logged |
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I was just wondering what you all were using to play cassettes? I have had several
cassette players but they have all kind of broke on me. I am looking for an inexpensive but good one online now and many of them have terrible reviews. I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a good one for a reasonable price. I have a lot of learning material on cassettes and without a player they are all pretty useless. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5129 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 37 07 June 2011 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
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A while back I bought this cassette to MP3 player/converter.
The sound quality is good enough and it was inexpensive. Tapes degrade badly over time, so it was important for me to be able to save what I had on cassette to another medium. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5966 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 37 07 June 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged |
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None for me - I got a really nice set of tapes at a thrift shop, assuming I could also find a secondhand cassette player someplace, and never did. Maybe eBay has something. I wonder how many of use still use tapes? My local library still has some tape-based learning programs but they don't seem to be popular. I don't think I've used a tape/cassette in 20 years or so and I'm not even too technologically advanced!
Maybe "tapes" in this room's titles should be changed to "audio files" or something else, unless many of us still use them. I'd keep looking for a cheap old cassette player, but this plus the tapes just takes up too much room and I'm more likely to just get rid of the things! EDIT: the converter is a good idea. Edited by meramarina on 07 June 2011 at 6:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5564 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 37 07 June 2011 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
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I have a 90s hi fi system that has a cassette player in it and I record out direct into a Zoom H4 via a RCA/Phono into 1/4 inch jack lead that I purchased on Amazon in 24 bit .wav mode.
I then use Reaper to edit the tapes into tracks using a de-esser plug in to take out hiss and a master/limiter to boost the signal. I then render the tracks to MP3. Works fine, if a little time consuming. Another good basic program for editing tapes is Spin It Again. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5285 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 6 of 37 07 June 2011 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
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I have a boombox I bought for 10 bucks at a garage sale. If you live in the US the GoodWill is perfect to find cheap and retro cassette players, portable or otherwise.
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| Andrew C Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom naturalarabic.com Joined 5189 days ago 205 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 7 of 37 07 June 2011 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
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I've got a Sony TCM 939 . It's really old school, but they still make them and I find it great. Sound is nothing brilliant, but it has a counter, you can ff/rew whilst hearing and you can record with the inbuilt mic. It's very reliable and never chews tapes.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5452 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 8 of 37 08 June 2011 at 1:00am | IP Logged |
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As others have already suggested, the best thing you can do is to is to digitise them as soon as you can. If you can
get hold of an old cassette deck with RCA or headphone jacks, you can hook it up to your computer with a cheap cable. Audacity is free program that can be used to record, edit and convert the sound files to MP3. Once done, you'll never regret having digitised them. Edited by tractor on 08 June 2011 at 1:02am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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