I'm sending 2 mini cassette tapes from South Florida to my brother in Nashville. There is a very sentimental conversation between my mother and my grandmother (both passed away now) and I don't want to lose the audio due to xray machines or any other gadgets. What is the best way to do this?
2007-01-29 11:26:14 · 3 answers · asked by Havana Brown 5 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Why don't you transform them to digital format on your PC. Follw the on-line guide, but you will be using your mini-cassette player and the headphone socket rather than a standard player with RCA sockets:
Put simply, you will need to connect your cassette player to your PC soundcard, then play the cassette whilst recording on your PC. A step-by-step guide is available at:
http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/diy
The recording software is the key, there are some free software downloads available at:
http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/downloads.php
I have used ‘Magix Audio Cleaning Lab’ and ‘Audacity’ – Audacity is particularly popular since it is free!
If you record to WAV format, expect file sizes of around 10MB per minute, or 1MB per minute for MP3 (at 128kbps).
Once you have your digital versions of the recording on your PC, simply burn them on to a CD (Nero burning software or similar..). If you use Magix Audio Cleaning, the software will burn an audio CD for you without needing additional software (assuming you have a CD writing drive of course!)
You can also download a free PDF version of the step-by–step guide from the download page mentioned above, the guide is complete with diagrams and screen-shots.
Hope this helps
2007-01-29 23:59:54 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
X-rays won't affect magnetic tapes.
Neverthless, I would make copies and send those. Keep the originals safe.
2007-01-29 19:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by dmb06851 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Make duplicates and only send the duplicates. Keep the originals in a safe place.
2007-01-29 22:21:36 · answer #3 · answered by wires 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋