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Capturing audio from cassette tapes
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Join Date: May 2005
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Is there a way to record audio from a stereo cassette player onto my mac so I can put it on a cd?
Is there a similar option for video cassettes?
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Hook it up to the audio input of your Mac and record it using either GarageBand (included) or Audacity (free).
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 
Hook it up to the audio input of your Mac and record it using either GarageBand (included) or Audacity (free).
Hooking it up that way will cause the quality to be lower, though (although the quality will be bad anyway just by virtue of the original being on cassette). Probably the best way to go is some sort of USB-based audio interface.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
Hooking it up that way will cause the quality to be lower, though
Lower than what?
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Isn't capturing audio through the microphone port supposed to result in more noise getting into the signal than when using a USB audio interface?
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a) It's actually a line-in port, not a microphone input. (One of the justifications for a product like the Griffin iMic is that it includes a mic preamp, which allows you to hook up a microphone - e.g. from a headset)
b) that does depend entirely on what you're getting. A $20 USB interface is probably not going to be much of an improvement, if at all, over the built-in ADC chip.
When you're talking about external interfaces, you can go from $20 for a two-channel interface to well over $1000 per channel.
In this case, it would seem to me that the line in is perfectly acceptable.
BTW: If the VCR has a separate audio output, you can hook that up just as you do the tape deck to record. If you actually want to record the video output, you'll need something like an elgate eyeTV hybrid TV stick (which will also do TV while you're at it).
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Audacity has a noise removal option. You record and select a short area where there is no music, just the tape hiss and hum. You then remove that noise from the whole recording. It works fairly well.
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cool thanks everyone i'll try this out
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