[Blindtlk] Transferrincassettes to audio file

[Ericka]

What is the name of the machine that you download things to thumbdrive?
Can you explain a little bit more?

Ericka Short
"What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right."

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> On May 16, 2016, at 10:51 AM, Weingartner, Paul via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> We have a standalone unit that has its own software. It converts the analog audio to mp3 and stores it to a thumb drive. The drive is then plugged into the Pc where the audio is cleaned up and converted to DAISY.
> The others use a cassette deck with a direct connection to the PC.
> A while back we saw the potential of cassette decks becoming rare and expensive so we purchased a few in hopes they will hold out till we get our whole collection transferred.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judy Jones via blindtlk
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 10:08 AM
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> Yes, I discovered Audacity later and love it.  My patch cord is not the RCA but the regular.  Just curious, if there is no PC involved, how was Audacity downloaded and run?
> 
> Judy
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Ericka, we are constathly transfering cassettes to digital. In our office we have a cassette player that transfers the audio to an mp3 and stores it on a thumb drive independent of a computer.
> We have a netork of volunteers using a cassette deck that is tied directly to the audio card of a PC using rca cables from the lowlevel outputs on the back of the deck. They use an opensource program called Audacity to make the transfer. Once it is all conneccted it funtions with very lttle attention.
>    Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ericka via blindtlk
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 9:24 PM
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> Subject: [Blindtlk] Transferrincassettes to audio file
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> My boyfriend is trying to help me reduce my clutter by transferring cassettes to audio file saving them on CDs. Yes the easiest solution is to just buy CD versions. Considering we have a zillion CDs to be burnt and want to use them up, what's the easiest way to do this with great quality sound? If there's a techno geek way to do this, I'm willing to pass it onto my boyfriend. I won't know what I'm reading, but he will. Theyre seems to be an easier way to do this then playing music through a cassette player and having the microphone hooked up to a computer record it. I have a GPX boombox with cassette and CD capabilities but don't think I can record to a blank CD. I think you can do that the other way around though – CD to blank cassette. 
> 
> Thanks for any help someone can provide.
> 
> Ericka Short
> "What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right."
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