Copy audio tapes to CD - Best free prog?

Pete Brown

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Oct 23, 2005, 3:48:13 PM10/23/05

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Anyone advise good free software to copy a few audio tapes...music and
spoken word...from tape to pc hard drive.
Thanks.

dadiOH

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Oct 23, 2005, 4:24:53 PM10/23/05

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dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

Unk

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Oct 23, 2005, 4:50:48 PM10/23/05

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Audacity (free)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Shep©

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Oct 23, 2005, 6:54:28 PM10/23/05

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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:48:13 +0100 If you fall from a tree,leave your
anger on the branch and then "Pete Brown" <Pete...@nomail.com> sent
this :

>Anyone advise good free software to copy a few audio tapes...music and
>spoken word...from tape to pc hard drive.
>Thanks.
>

Your sound card may have already installed some software for you to do
it.Open up you programs list and look for your sound card and see if
there's something like a,"Wav" recorder.Then it's just a matter of
sticking the right cable into the sound card from your
tape-player,usually the line-in is the same impedance on the PC as
the line-out of you Tape player.Then it's fiddly volume time so you
don't distort etc.Once you have your audio in a .wav format there's
loads of good free stuff around to manipulate and convert to say .mp3s
if you wish and remove scratches,normalise,compress.

Don't run before you can walk.Get a good copy on your hard drive as a
.wav file and post back :)

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Shel-hed

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Oct 24, 2005, 12:05:12 AM10/24/05

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I really like CD Wave
http://www.milosoftware.com/cdwave/

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:48:13 +0100, "Pete Brown" <Pete...@nomail.com> wrote:

Shel-hed

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Oct 24, 2005, 12:12:50 AM10/24/05

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Oops... you said free. CD Wave is shareware, but it isn't crippleware, so you
can use it for as long as you like. I think you'll want to pay the small fee
though.

fred-bloggs

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Oct 24, 2005, 4:37:32 AM10/24/05

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"Pete Brown" <Pete...@nomail.com> wrote in news:djgpbo$gbd$1
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> Anyone advise good free software to copy a few audio tapes...music and
> spoken word...from tape to pc hard drive.
> Thanks.
>
>

Goldwave is uncrippled shareware and includes noise reduction which is very
good at removing tape hiss.
http://www.goldwave.com/release.php

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fred

Pete Brown

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Oct 24, 2005, 3:22:36 PM10/24/05

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Many thanks for all the replies...going try them all :-)
Cheers.

old jon

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Oct 24, 2005, 3:34:49 PM10/24/05

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"Pete Brown" <Pete...@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone advise good free software to copy a few audio tapes...music and
> spoken word...from tape to pc hard drive.
> Thanks.
>

Here you are Pete, another good free one:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
best wishes..OJ