I have a lot of old tapes that I'd like to convert to mp3 files and I'm
unsure of what software would best do this. While I would, of course like
the best quality, I would gladly sacrifice a little quality for ease of use
with the software. I'm just looking for simple software that I could do
this with. Surround sound is not important - stereo is just fine. Can
anyone help?

Flobiwan

Fredd Wright wrote:
I have a lot of old tapes that I'd like to convert to mp3 files and
I'm unsure of what software would best do this. While I would, of
course like the best quality, I would gladly sacrifice a little
quality for ease of use with the software. I'm just looking for
simple software that I could do this with. Surround sound is not
important - stereo is just fine. Can anyone help?

Flobiwan

Since you write to a high-end NG, "best" would mean:
Wind your tapes forth and back.
Clean heads and adjust azimuth on your Nakamichi tape deck.
Go with short interconnects into your professional 24/96 Soundcard. Record
on 24bit/88.2kHz. Keep levels down so
Record with CoolEditPro2 (now something Adobe). Maybe sound needs some
filtering. Separate the different traccks, normalize and convert to
16-bit/44.1kHz, burn to CD.
Don't convert to MP3 (Tho CEP could do that too).
--
ciao Ban
Bordighera, Italy

Hi Fredd,
I recommend Lame/RazorLame. RazorLame is the frontend for Lame which is
a commandline driven program. Google for them both. A little setup is
required to get it going, nothing major though. Reading the Lame "Usage"
file is a good place to start if you know nothing about MP3 creation, then
use Razorlame to set the switches for Lame.

- Nothing is so smiple that you can't screw it up! keithw...

"Fredd Wright" wrote in message
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I have a lot of old tapes that I'd like to convert to mp3 files and I'm
unsure of what software would best do this. While I would, of course like
the best quality, I would gladly sacrifice a little quality for ease of
use
with the software. I'm just looking for simple software that I could do
this with. Surround sound is not important - stereo is just fine. Can
anyone help?

Flobiwan