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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Who can conquer Mount Cassette?
A while back I mentioned I had scores of unlogged, disorganised tapes of my old GLR radio shows. Some saintly souls offered to digitise them. Well, now I've actually got them in one very big box. How do you feel about it now?
Pity me - I have a mountain of DAT tapes: band demos, songwriter demos etc. This "technology of the future" is so crap that hardly any of them play without ghastly, speaker-shredding digital errors. The oldest is only about 15 years old. On second thoughts, maybe I'll just biff 'em.
Dave, to have a crack yourself, this is what you need:
A cassette deck plus a cable that has the red and white plugs on one end and a coaxial socket on the other. A copy of Roxio Toast which has within it a programme called CD Spin Doctor. The time and inclination. Oh and a Mac of course.
You boot up CD Spin doctor, plug in the tape player, press play and record simultaneously, and it records to create an mpeg. Downside is it is done in real time, like in the old days.
My box of cassettes is bigger than yours ;-) I'm digitising them - it's a long slow project - but I have found some gems from GLR and from Capital Radio 194 amongst them. It's a joy to have to listen to them in real time...
A while back I mentioned I had scores of unlogged, disorganised tapes of my old GLR radio shows. Some saintly souls offered to digitise them. Well, now I've actually got them in one very big box. How do you feel about it now?
Digitise them and then make them available to us all!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like the 1986 prototype iPod.
ReplyDeleteI could do it for you David, but I'd much rather have a bash at your LP collection...
ReplyDelete;?
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Mort
Gimme gimme gimme.
ReplyDeletePity me - I have a mountain of DAT tapes: band demos, songwriter demos etc. This "technology of the future" is so crap that hardly any of them play without ghastly, speaker-shredding digital errors. The oldest is only about 15 years old. On second thoughts, maybe I'll just biff 'em.
ReplyDeleteThis is what presidential libraries are for. Why not start one ;)
ReplyDeleteAlternatively you could buy a cassette-ION and as people have said stick 'em up on the web. As a public service.
Or, flog them on ebay. Old cassettes with blank labels go well.
That's enough suggestions - Ed
Have you heard Don Everly's disco-hipped version of Warming Up The Band? Like Little Feat meet AWB
ReplyDeleteDave, to have a crack yourself, this is what you need:
ReplyDeleteA cassette deck plus a cable that has the red and white plugs on one end and a coaxial socket on the other.
A copy of Roxio Toast which has within it a programme called CD Spin Doctor.
The time and inclination.
Oh and a Mac of course.
You boot up CD Spin doctor, plug in the tape player, press play and record simultaneously, and it records to create an mpeg. Downside is it is done in real time, like in the old days.
It really is a P of P though....
My box of cassettes is bigger than yours ;-) I'm digitising them - it's a long slow project - but I have found some gems from GLR and from Capital Radio 194 amongst them. It's a joy to have to listen to them in real time...
ReplyDeleteMick in Chessington
mick_the_knife on twitter
You wanna get one of these:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.firebox.com/product/1700/Plus-Deck-Cassette-Converter