Here's my problem, and pardon my ignorance if there is a ready of obvious solution to this problem that I haven't conceived of; I have tons of audio cassette tapes of voice interviews I have recorded over the years that I now want to transfer to my Mac and possibly record on to a CDR. I'm sure this is possible, but I need some advice on what is the best way to do it. Should I just hook a tape player up to the audio-in jack and record as a .mov file or something? I have the 500 Mhz Powerbook G3, by the way. Can someone give me some ideas? Thanks.

SimpleSound can handle that. I'm not sure where it resides on the hard drive, just do a search for it. It's part of Mac OS 9. SoundJam MP Plus can do it too.

First, you will use the sound-in port on the computer. Use the sound control panel to set it up.

Next open simple sound. Close the Alert Sounds window and select new from the file menu.

Record away.

One more thing, these file can get pretty big, so when you're done you may want to convert them to MP3's with QuickTime Player or SoundJam.

[This message has been edited by GORDYmac (edited 10-19-2000).]

Here's another method. I use this to produce Audio CDs for archive or to hand out from when our band plays.

There is a nice little app called Sound Sculptor II. You can use this to create AIFF files (also edit, add effects, etc.). These files are the 'tracks' on an audio CD.
http://hometown.aol.com/sculptorii/index.html

Then once you've created your 'tracks' you can burn them to a CD with Adaptec Jam, or maybe Toast (not sure about Toast).

This method is a bit more expensive, but will produce a true audio CD that will play on any CD player.

Hope this helps,

-Steve
stevew@pdg-inc.com http://www.pdg-inc.com/~stevew/