This question is asked for my brother. He has some old cassettes that he
would like to put on cd. I am unable to answer his questions.

I know the **first** step is to record the cassette audio into regular
music .wav files on his pc hard drive. Am I right here?

(I have instructed him on how to run a patch cable from the output of his
cassette player into the input of his sound card.)


The next step of course would be to then burn cd's from the wav files on
his hard drive.

I need to know what is a good, simple, basic program for him to do the first
step ?

I can reccomend that he use Roxio for the cd-burning, as I have that and can
show him how to burn a cd once he gets the **first** step done.

I suppose my bottom-line question is what is the best ripper software for
a complete newbie ??

Thanks for any help !!


--James-- jnipper@fdn.com

Try Audacity -- it's free. =)

- Eric

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"James Nipper" <jnipper@nospam.fdn.com> wrote in message news:<3PudnW_Ue_Y1deWiXTWJjw@comcast.com>...
You don't have to directly record to WAV, although it is recommended.
You can record directly to MP3 using RAW audio as input. I don't know
any programs for windows that allow you to do this but I know a few
for Linux. Look for programs based on MP3Lame.
http://lame.sourceforge.net/ I downloaded a version out there,
console based, that converted wav to mp3 for win32. Not easy for
beginners but still useful.

What a pallava! They can't be that rare that no one on WinMX has them and he
won't get all that hiss from the tape transfer....

"James Nipper" <jnipper@nospam.fdn.com> wrote in message
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I have used Gold Wave for cassette capture in the past with good success.

http://www.goldwave.com/

The 1st step is correct.
From your cassette player have a wire to your input jack into your
audio card.
This is where you start to find out about the quality of your sound
card.

Personally, at this point, I would use Total Recorder.
I think it's amongst the best applications I have ever had the
pleasure of ... well ... having And I'm serious about that.

In the interface of TotalRecorder, which by the way can be found at:
http://www.HighCriteria.com
you'll find the option to record directly from the
Line-In/Aux/whatever.
You can record it in mp3 or wav. You can chose the encoder you like
(lame's encoder's definitely the best).

There're many other features that I hardly use for what I do.
But you can definitely specify how long the recording should last,
auto-stop, auto-save, system shutdown, etc. It's very very very very
nice.

I have a CD with the most important applications, for emergencies like
fire, reformatting, etc. This application is amongst those.

I wouldn't mind losing my $4000 PC, but I do mind losing my software;
and Total Recorder made that list.

I bet you High Criteria would love to hear my view on their program

Good luck on that.



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