Hi

i'm not a computer newbe but i'm a multimedia music one....
two questions:
what to use to convert CD 's audio tracks into mp3 files ?
I have many music tapes (the normal small cassettes) ...how to convert them to mp3 ? (please list hw and sw needed )

thanks in advance

Maurizio

I have seen usb turnatables like this one. Here's a cassette drive. I'm not sure if any of these are supported by linux or not.

This might help:
http://www.linux-sxs.org/multimedia/tape2CD.html

Beyond that, I'd suggest you point your browser at www.google.com/linux, and search for "tape to mp3" and "analog to digital" for further reading.

One time, I used a regualar tape cassette player...

i used a cable to connect the headphones out to the line-in of my soundcard, using windows and some application to capture sound. You could do it that way...I'm sure there are plenty of applications that will let you capture sound from line-in

the best part is if your soundcard works, this works

btw...this isn't exactly an audiophile's way of doing it...it's far from it.
(lots of hissing from noise, i don't know whether dobly digital filters will fix it)

[edit]whoops...bigrigdriver has the same solution....i was too lazy to click the link

Funny, we were talking about the old days recently, and friends that had a cassette "hard-drive" came up. They were on a 386 PC and used a cassette tape as a hard drive.
We had a Mac back then, with a 40 Meg hard-drive. WooHoo!
-- I almost typed Gig there ;-)
If you google the old technologies (circa 1991) you should/could find what you are looking for...

I am intrigued. Never was in to tapes myself, but the anolog to digital should still be available no?

Bet you could pick up a 386 real cheap ;-)

I use grip. Set up the Rip to rip .wav file to disk, and set up the Encode to encode to mp3.

if it's a cd i use KAudioCreator (came with KDE on slackware 9.1+up install) and LAME (compile from source or use favorite package repository)

with a little bit of work i got it set up to rip directly to MP3 either to hiqh quality music or to lower quality audio books (fit more on ipod that way and don't care about lower sampling rate)

for tape i use a sony walkman plugged into my audio-in jack, krecord to record it and mp3split to trim leading and trailing silence then encode with lame

a little awkward and low quality (i do not reccomend for music), but it works for me and i get my fav audio books on my ipod.

In the past i have used a good tape reader, a simple cable, and rec from command line too.

I doubt the cassette drive with the 5.25 bay will be better.

Does anyone have any experience with either one? I have a fair amount of tapes and records I would not mind converting to digital.

Keith