Guest guest Posted November 2, 2001 Report Share Posted November 2, 2001 SrI: SrImatE rAmAnujAya namaH namO nArAyaNa! Dear members, aDiyEn would like to know the way to convert an audio tape into an audio file ie. get the tape contents like speech Or song, into the computer, so that interested persons can listen to it at their end through e-mail tranfer of this file Or say by uploading into a Web-site. What is the methodology or perhaps pros and cons of different methodologies ? Specific notes on the hardware and software requirements will be very useful. Kindly give the pointers. Thanks in advance and Sorry for the trouble. << Some songs of AnnamAchArya and few speeches with me can be made available to others in this fashion. >> aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan, anand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 3, 2001 Report Share Posted November 3, 2001 Dear Sri Anand: there are lot ways to do this conversion. That is analog audio to digital audio. First a little primer on various formats. As you know in digital audio we have different formats. The most popular formats are Wave, .AIFF, midi, Real Audio and latest is MP3. Among all these MP3 is considered as best because a CD can hold more than 10 hours of Audio in MP3 format. Normally a CD can hold up to 72 minutes (of course the latest Fuji CDs can hold up to 80 minutes) as a wave file. Most of the Audio CDs currently available are all in .wav format. That is the tracks are all actually .wav files. One of the reasons why MP3s are considered as best is, though they are Audio files, when they recorded on a CD they are not recorded as Audio but as a data. Therefore in a CD we can record around 650 MB (again in some CDs you can go up to 700 MB) of data, depending on your compression settings you can have more than 10 hours of audio in a CD if you have your file as MP3. Enough about MP3. Regardi ng your question on how to go from tape to digital, you should have a mini stereo plug to mini stereo plug (also known as male to male mini stereo) cable. In any tape player, you should have an output jack (normally used for headphone). In a computer, the sound card (normally found on the backside) would have a line-in or an input jack. With the mini stereo plug to mini stereo plug cable, hook up your tape to the computer. This is all you need as far as the hardware is concerned. But you should have a software application to record the input audio into the computer. Though you may find few free software applications on web, adiyen would suggest Sonic Foundry' s Sound Forge (the latest version is 5.0). If the software is used for educational purposes (such as ours) then it is not at all expensive. (Around US $ 60. To know more about this product go to http://www.sonicfoundry.com and click on Products and Software). And this software application is very easy to use. I have prep ared a tutorial on how to use this software application to teach here in my University. I can send if anyone needs it. Once you record the audio then there are options to save that file in different formats. One of the options is, you could save it as an MP3 file and of course you should have a CD burner to burn this. Hope this helps. If anyone has any further questions adiyen would be more than happy answer them (preferably through personal emails). Even if adiyen don’t know the answer, adiyen would definitely make an attempt to find out. RamanujaDasan Kannan On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 18:51:07 Anand K Karalapakkam wrote: >SrI: >SrImatE rAmAnujAya namaH > > namO nArAyaNa! > > Dear members, > > aDiyEn would like to know the way to > convert an audio tape into an audio file ie. get the > tape contents like speech Or song, into the computer, > so that interested persons can listen to it at their end > through e-mail tranfer of this file Or say by uploading into > a Web-site. What is the methodology or perhaps pros > and cons of different methodologies ? Specific notes > on the hardware and software requirements will be > very useful. > > Kindly give the pointers. Thanks in advance > and Sorry for the trouble. > > << Some songs of AnnamAchArya and few speeches > with me can be made available to others > in this fashion. >> > > aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan, > anand. > > > >Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka >Srivan Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama: > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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