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Brian Reay wrote:
TimW wrote:
A half a dozen of old cassettes of speech need to be digitised for
archive purposes. I could maybe get the old hifi out of the cupboard and
the cassette deck might work. How do I then connect that to a PC? Could
use a windows or linux machine. Would that be better than a £20 usb
cassette player from amazon?:
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076PFJK..._IOhxDb00BE8TF
When I have an audio file I think I could remove a bit of hiss with
audacity or similar. Would that be 'job done'?
TW


Just use an existing machine, assuming it has an Line output and is half
decent. Connect it to the line / aux in of your PC.

I favour Linux and tend to use Audacity for basic sound jobs like this,
not that I do many.

You will need the mp3 extension for Audacity, it is a while since I did
an installation but I don‘t think it comes as standard.

Don‘t expect wonderful quality. Cassettes were never brilliant (and I‘m
no HiFi snob), the conversion process doesn‘t help, let alone any issues
due to storage.

And if you use Audacity, you can EQ the recording for best results.

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