24 Nov
1998
24 Nov
'98
3:05 a.m.
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Marvin wrote:
Having *finally* gotten a CD-R unit hooked up, it
occurred to
me that perhaps recording all the cassette data tapes to CD
would be a worthwhile thing to do. Has anyone else tried this?
I have done this very successfully. As has been mentioned, loading the
original cassette-based software into a computer of the type that the tape
was written on and saving a "clean" copy for writing to CD works best.
On the systems that I have tried, the headphone output levels of a
portable CD player are more than adequate for reading the audio CDs back
into the computer.
Since you will need to convert the audio data into 44.1 kHz, 16-bit,
stereo data for writing to an audio CD, doing the initial recording in
this format makes sense if you have the hardware to do so, even if it is
overkill. If writing a normal audio CD is not your goal, then 22 kHz,
8-bit mono is more than good enough.
A cassette deck that you are willing to perform azimuth adjustments on can
be a valuable tool when reading old audio cassette data for re-writing to
CD. Often, a small head alignment tweak can make the difference between
an unreadable tape and one that reads perfectly.
--
Scott Ware ware(a)xtal.pharm.nwu.edu