HELP!
like most folk I have hundreds of cassette tapes. Now I'm not wanting to convert them all just about a dozen tapes or so of outdoor/ mountain documentaries amongst others Glencoe, The Merrick, Beinn Eighe, The Cobbler, Ben Nevis, Lochnagar, The Pentlands, Ben More [Mull] and a brilliant play I recorded from Radio 4 called the Glasgow Climbing Club. So recently whilst in Aldi I noticed they had a wee cassette converter for £6.99. Reading the instructions it all appeared so easy.
You guessed it when I got home and tried it I had problems.
The converter/cassette player model is called Envivo. The theory is you download audacity plug the usb cable from the converter into the laptop and use audacity to record.
However the dialogue boxes etc they show in the instructions don't match up with what I have on my screen.
I tried all sorts of settings etc but still no joy. In the end I just gave up but rather than take the thing back to the shop i kept it as it's still a handy wee cassette player which I can listen to the cassettes on if I so wish.
But It would have been a whole lot better if I could get them converted to mp3 and onto my pc and ipod.
So Can anyone help with how to convert tapes to mp3.
Perhaps there is an easy way!
Plug the cassette player into the computer and use Windows Media Player to convert them. The cassette player should show up in the play panel. I take it it is a USB player?
yes will try that
gonnae no bother! its not showing up.
It should do. I have my tablet plugged into the laptop just now and it is showing up in the media player. It should work the same as if you had put a cd in the computer. Try playing the cassette while it is plugged in to the computer and see what happens :)
definitely not showing up
Have a read through this. It might throw up some ideas.
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=67463 (http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=67463)
http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_printer_threads.asp?ForumID=2&TopicID=285916 (http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_printer_threads.asp?ForumID=2&TopicID=285916)
How about this one. It appears to convert directly to MP3 without the need for Audacity.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-AUDIO-CASSETTE-TAPE-TO-PC-iPOD-MP3-CD-DIGITAL-MUSIC-CONVERTER-CONVERTOR-/381005728094?pt=UK_CE_Cassette_RL&hash=item58b5b6095e (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-AUDIO-CASSETTE-TAPE-TO-PC-iPOD-MP3-CD-DIGITAL-MUSIC-CONVERTER-CONVERTOR-/381005728094?pt=UK_CE_Cassette_RL&hash=item58b5b6095e)
Fred; that looks exactly like the converter I have. Thanks Sandy for trying to help. I've already tried most of those things . I will try again later.
thank you Sandy I had another look through that stuff and somehow i am currently recording my Beinn Eighe documentary.
Probably just down to my incompetence and fear of f****n my laptop settings and stuff.
I will let you know how it sounds when it's complete.
Thanks once again.
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and try it. I don't know how many times I have crashed, seized up or changed something just by pressing things to see what it does :) Once you have done it a few times you get an idea of what not to press, or what to press, at the right time. Half the times I will do something to make something work and the next time I have to do it I have forgotten what it was I did and have to go through the whole process of try this, press that or change this until it works again. Then I will forget the next time it happens, ad infinitum :)
I'm glad at least something is happening :)
I've now completed recording and editing two of the documentaries and they sound great. Now moving onto a third and fourth. They were broadcast on Radio Scotland back in 2002. They are called Mountain Tales.
Mind and convert at the highest bit rate ! For better sound quality
Next I'm gonna find out how to convert cam Corder tapes which I have a plethora of from the peak of my hillwalking days (pardon the pun)
Quote from: Clan Chief on October 19, 2014, 01:42:10 PM
Next I'm gonna find out how to convert cam Corder tapes
I did this some time ago. Cheap gizmo from Ebay that plugged into the scart socket of a video recorder and USB'd into the PC. It came with software, worked a treat
cheers Fred I will look into this. I can only imagine how time consuming this will be.
If its on VHS tapes you can buy a player that records straight to DVD, my mate has one and gives excellent results, If its video 8 or something along that line im sure you could buy some sort of VHS cassette that the video 8 popped into then played on a normal VHS Player.
And your correct in saying its time consuming as you have to play each individual tape so if you have 30 or so with 2 hours each on tape you can work it out !
Or save them to hard drive and burn to a blue ray disc if your machine will do it.
I've got the originals on 8mm