Re: tape to digital

From: CyberCafe (pkbk_at_badger.tds.net)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:43:19 -0500

"K. Carp" wrote:

> Barb,
> Do you have an olympus digital recorder? My docs all use olympus, and I have
> one at home. One time I wanted to record something from my phone message
> tape, and I just used my digital olympus recorder while it played. It
> recorded it beautifully, with good sound.

Yeah, I tried it with my Olympus DS 330 (hope that's the right model number).
Environment wasn't quiet enough for long enough. These are longgggg tape
recordings. I can't see any way to connect a cable from a tape player to my
Olympus. I wonder if the other models have a way to accept a cable from a tape
player directly into an Olympus (if I have to buy a different Olympus recorder,
that's fine). Gee, come to think of it, I'll probably have to buy a different
Olympus model anyway so those large files can be split.

Anybody try this? http://www.xitel.com/product_inport.htm
It has weird plug ends though.

I hate tapes!!!!

Barb

>
>
> Kathy
>
> "CyberCafe" <pkbk@badger.tds.net> wrote in message
> news:412CAF8E.1D2D3E18@badger.tds.net...
> > I need to convert standard cassette tapes to digital format so I can
> > send the digital audio files out to be transcribed. If this sounds
> > familiar, I've asked this question before. I've tried probably all the
> > previous suggestions as far as cables, editing software, etc., but I
> > cannot for the life of me get a decent clear (or partly clear) digital
> > copy that you can actually understand what the people are saying. It's
> > not a volume problem. There's just a lot of everything else; all kinds
> > of funny noises that certainly were not on the tape.
> >
> > There is some equipment out there that converts analog to digital
> > format. Has anyone used any of these devices and did it work? Here are
> > two examples of the devices I've seen: Lucid AD 9624 ($800) and
> > ADTC-2000 (under $60). The ADTC looks like just a cable with a box in
> > the middle of the cable. The Lucid thingy is a stand-alone box.
> >
> > Another question. Would it be possible to hook up a standard cassette
> > player or transcriber (or something) directly to a .dss digital recorder
> > and transfer/copy the tape recordings that way. Any suggestions on the
> > brands or models that could possible do this? So far, haven't found any
> > online info from the digital recorder companies about this. Really,
> > really, really want to stay with .dss format because we use dial-up.
> >
> > Any suggestions/help/advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > Barb
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> >

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