[Electronics-talk] Digitizing Audiocassettes

Sun Mar 2 02:47:45 UTC 2014

The plugs on the end of the cable would be 3.5mm stereo plugs.  Pam.
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From: "Drew Hunthausen" <dhunthausen at gmail.com>
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> Yes, that should do it. I'm not sure best buy would carry the cables, a
> better place would be a place like radio shack, but if you don't have one 
> of
> those call best buy beforehand to see if they carry what you need. Good 
> luck
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 4:57 PM
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>
> Hi,
> thanks. oh the microphone jack of the stream and the headphone jack on a
> cassette player. did not think of that combo.
> I believe if that is all you need, I can do it with the old stream then. I
> assume I can get the chords from a electronics store like best buy, right?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Hunthausen
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 7:50 PM
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>
> Ashley,
> I haven't done this myself with my stream, but I would think it is pretty
> simple. I'm not sure what the cable is called, but it's just a standard 
> one
> that you would plug one end into the headphone jack on the tape player and
> the other end into the microphone jack of the stream. The audio from the
> tape player would be transmitted to the stream through the cord on to an 
> sd
> card just like an audio recording you made would be. These cables are very
> common and cheap, I have a bunch of them I use with fm microphones I have
> with my hearing aides. Let me know if you have any other questions, and it
> also shouldn't matter whether you and the new or the old stream.
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 4:23 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Digitizing Audiocassettes
>
> Hi,
> But how does that work? can you hook your old cassette player up to the
> stream?
> What type of cable would you use? I have the old stream, so cannot do it,
> but was curious. I've seen the new stream and it does have a usb port and 
> a
> sd card slot.
> oOtherwise, no ports to connect things to.
>
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tim aune
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 9:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Digitizing Audiocassettes
>
> I would suggest an easy way to do that would be to use one of the 
> recorders
> like the new victor stream, the bookport plus or the book sence to record 
> in
> mp3 along with a good cassette deck.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Werner
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 5:32 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Digitizing Audiocassettes
>
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I am looking into ways of getting material on audiocassettes converted to
> MP3 or another suitable format.  Has anyone purchased special cassette 
> decks
> that will do so?  If so, are there any with accessibility features?  Am I
> tied into using a particular program to do the digitizing?  Alternatively, 
> I
> realize I could use a conventional tape player to send the output of the
> audio to my computer.  I am not familiar with using audio software, so the
> simpler the recording package, the better.  I don't think I'll be doing a
> lot of editing; I will just convert the tracks as they are.
>
> Thank you for all help.
>
> Craig
>
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