USB Tape (cassette) deck

eamon

It's true no line in. Toshiba Equium P300-16T.

Either way I still need a replacement tape deck.
1. to finish my project
2. to plug the gap in my hi-fi stack
3. when I'm drunk on a friday night its lucky dip from the tape cassette box

TakeThis

eamon wrote: »

It's true no line in. Toshiba Equium P300-16T.

Either way I still need a replacement tape deck.
1. to finish my project
2. to plug the gap in my hi-fi stack
3. when I'm drunk on a friday night its lucky dip from the tape cassette box

Equium P300-16T

1 × DC-in
1 × external monitor
1 × RJ-11
1 × RJ-45
1 × TV-out (s-video)
1 × i.LINK® (IEEE 1394)
1 × external microphone
1 × headphone (stereo)
1 × SP/DIF (optical) shared with headphone socket
4 (Left 2, Right 2) × USB 2.0
1 × integrated 1.3 Megapixels Web Camera with built-in microphone
1 × 5-in-1 Bridge Media slot (supports SD™ Cards up to 16 GB, Memory Stick® up to 256 MB, Memory Stick Pro™ up to 2 GB, MultiMedia Card™ up to 2 GB and xD-Picture Card™ up to 2 GB)
1 × HDMI-CEC


Didn't think it could be true. That's why you have a microphone socket. It isn't just for a microphone.

You just need a lead such as the one linked to in my earlier post and a cassette deck.

Recording The Wave Out Mix in Vista.

Choose .wave as your output in Sound Recorder, otherwise Sound Recorder will record in Windows Media Audio by default.

eamon

TakeThis

Many thanks for your input. I use Audacity and considering I already have a USB/Line In gadget I'll be sticking with this method when I source a tape deck. Though I do have an old Walkman equivalent (Akai) upstairs that if I was really pushed I could use. There is only me in the house so having a quiet room for a few hours isn't an issue.
Now to get busy on Ebay.

prowla

I have a Sony Walkman Pro, which is considered to be a decent (and handy sized) tape deck. They can still be over £100 though.

schrodie

I bought one of these from my local Aldi which converts cassette tapes to MP3 files.

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apnorf

I use the Aldi deck, got it half price a few weeks back. I have had "Spin it again" for years but Audacity is fine, I also use "mp3DirectCut" for chopping bits out. Old audiobooks on cassette converted but just takes time.

bluesnake

eamon wrote: »

... I could then continue with my long term project of digitising my collection of C60 & C90 tapes albeit slightly faster.

My friend did the same, bought a usb tape drive. The tapes were too old, stretched and the final quality in audacity was very hissey and poor.

I pointed her to youtube where she could see the acts. She being a devious cur, got her firefox youtube grabber and then used Freemake to convert them to mp3

googler

bluesnake wrote: »

My friend did the same, bought a usb tape drive. The tapes were too old, stretched and the final quality in audacity was very hissey and poor.

I pointed her to youtube where she could see the acts. She being a devious cur, got her firefox youtube grabber and then used Freemake to convert them to mp3

None of which helps the OP if the content of their tapes isn't on YouTube.....

bluesnake

googler wrote: »

None of which helps the OP if the content of their tapes isn't on YouTube.....

My friend said the exact same, until she searched. How does one know what the op listens to?

googler

bluesnake wrote: »

My friend said the exact same, until she searched. How does one know what the op listens to?

We don't, which is sort of my point.

A sizeable amount of my tape collection is what I've recorded myself, either on location or from radio and TV, and I'd wager not even a minute fraction of that is on YouTube.....