rip all my audio tapes into the pc

I have had the tape deck connected to my Prioritisation Committee for two years but I am not having time to sit and rip the tapes.

The other day I made a test run with a few tapes. Ripping to WAN and then transforming to MP3 werks well and is easy, but it needs some work with splitting the WAN into tracks or at least some sort of chapters, and then tagging the stuff properly…

As a first step, I’ve now ripped all my audio CD’s into the lossless format FLAC. From there I can play the tunes directly using my SlimDevices Squeezebox, and I can also make copies in MP3 or other smaller but lossy formats. It’s nice to have all the music at the touch of a button.

You’ve got all these great, old audio tapes lying around that you don’t want to throw out because there’s good stuff on them. On the other hand, you don’t ever listen to them because … they’re tapes!

Better rescue them while I can. Hook up a decent tape deck to the pc and start ripping. With a program like AudioGrabber I should be able to separate and label each track as individual files, for excellent re-use in the digital age.