Convert my cassettes to mp3 format

Curious if Audacity recognises breaks between songs.

Found my old cassettes today, and started to convert my Flintstones movie soundtrack (over a decade old!). Got an cheap cassette player, some cables from work (I record radio for a living, although not for much longer) and fed it into Audicity. Quality is good.

I’ve got more important things to do than this at the moment so I’m temporarily giving it up

Better to go get them again—CD and .flac quality is higher. Of course, by the time I thought of doing this, I pretty much had no tapes left! So the economics, for me, worked out. Your mileage may vary.

But download your music in high quality if that is how you get it! Burn it to DVD or send it to the hard disk and compress it yourself onto your iPods or other players if you need to save space on the portable.

i’m tired of having those things sitting around, so i made the goal to get them all converted by this sunday. I’ve only got three more to do and i am working on that as i type. But this better be worth it because i don’t want to see another cassette for a long long time.

The reasons for which I was doing this are no longer necessary, so I am giving up on this particular goal.

I don’t know what everyone else is using but I needed something free that worked. I’m using Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) for my conversions. Just attached a cassette player to the line in of my computer, adjusted the quality and let it record. I like it because I can record the whole cassette, add the names of the tracks, and the program splits them up and converts them automatically. The only problem I had was on the computer I was using I had windows 98 and the program couldn’t write to the hard drive fast enough and I kept getting skips in the recording. I installed it to linux and had no problems with it. If anyone wants a free program to help them with this goal, I would recommend this.

I consider this different from CD’s because I have to set up my computer to let me do cassettes. I got an old cassette player that I can hook into my computer – I still need to get some wires and try it once to see what I need to do around sound quality.

I had not digitized any tapes in a while. I did a couple more today. I would have done a couple more, but I got involved in something with my son and with some house work, so I did not get around to it tonight.

I am making progress towards finishing this goal. I am about one-third the way finished at this point.