On 21/08/2019 06:55, 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?:
Learn mo
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.

Asuming the belts haven't gone a bit saggy, which most will have by now

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 dont think it comes as standard.

Dont expect wonderful quality. Cassettes were never brilliant (and Im no
HiFi snob), the conversion process doesnt help, let alone any issues due
to storage.