Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:21:17 -0400
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: old time technology - second try to remove glitch
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:

> That includes sound recordings; somewhere I have
> a cassette tape of music that was taped onto a
> reel-to-reel recorder from some old Edison cylinders.
> If I had the tech knowledge I'd dig it out, try to
> find a working cassette deck, and copy it onto a
> CD, just for the heck of it.  (The songs aren't
> that great.)

Moving a cassette tape to a CD isn't hard.  I did that for one my dad
sent me last month.  Used my old Sony Walkman to play into my Sound
Blaster Live card to get .wav files, then burned an audio CD from them.
  I also converted to MP3 format and put them on my phone.  Quality of
the transfer wasn't critical...the source was a 1960s record of a 1920's
recording (Willie Fyffe's "Twelve and a Tanner a Bottle").  I cleaned up
the hiss a bit after digitizing, so the CD sounds better than the tape
did...and there won't be any more loss as it moves to whatever format
comes next so long as I start with the .wav files.

-- Mike B.