The Project of Massiveness Begins
Jan. 16th, 2010 08:35 amI spent $5 on eBay and bought a 3mm male-to-male stereo plug. I downloaded a free program called Audacity.
Now I can rip cassettes to my computer. That part has worked, much to my delight.
Have now hit a hiccup. I can't figure out how to split these wav files up into separate songs. Anyone know how to do it on Audacity or know of a good free program that will do it (I kinda need to just play the track, hit "start" when a song begins, then hit "end" when that song is over and save that part as the song.) A lot of these tapes are full of stuff recorded off the radio, so the delineation between tracks isn't clear unless you listen to them.
Next step after that is converting to MP3, which I'm guessing should be relatively easy.
This will be a BIG job (I have about 7 drawersful of cassettes), but it will be awesome to be able to listen to all that old stuff again and not have to worry about any further loss of quality.
Now I can rip cassettes to my computer. That part has worked, much to my delight.
Have now hit a hiccup. I can't figure out how to split these wav files up into separate songs. Anyone know how to do it on Audacity or know of a good free program that will do it (I kinda need to just play the track, hit "start" when a song begins, then hit "end" when that song is over and save that part as the song.) A lot of these tapes are full of stuff recorded off the radio, so the delineation between tracks isn't clear unless you listen to them.
Next step after that is converting to MP3, which I'm guessing should be relatively easy.
This will be a BIG job (I have about 7 drawersful of cassettes), but it will be awesome to be able to listen to all that old stuff again and not have to worry about any further loss of quality.
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Date: 2010-01-16 04:39 am (UTC)