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marye
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Posted: May 27, 2007 - 2:47pm

Latest and greatest equipment, etc.


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On June 25th, 2007 marye said:

the way I plan to do it is plug the d6 into the line in port on the Belkin TuneTalk on my iPod (just as I record interviews off the phone), record to the iPod, then move the result into iTunes, onto CD, etc.

But depending on your equipment you might want to do something else.

Help is out there somewhere

On June 26th, 2007 Crazy Peg said:

I just realized I am an archivist at heart and am going to start a personal hobby recording project.

Got one mic (so far) and a nice new ibook, Anyone know how I get started recording in .wav format?

Got some cassettes to transfer also.....

8 Track Player???

On June 26th, 2007 Crazy Peg said:

Anyone know where I can find an 8 track player?

Got some stuff I need to transfer and I know it is a necessity in the process.
Baby steps....

Digital Music 101

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On June 27th, 2007 robsjca76 said:

In short, the .shn files downloaded from http://www.longliverock.org/downloads/ is step one. Actually, step one is reading their instructions located @: http://www.longliverock.org/downloads/extras-gettingstarted.php

You will need to download a program called "Bit Torrent" in order to open that "shn"/"torrent" file at which time you open the file so that the actual download can begin. It should state or give you options of the format such as high quality "flac" or "wav" vs. lower quality "mp3" files etc. A typical high quality will be rather large (50 Megabytes) where the low quality "mp3" will be rather small (5 Megabytes). Assuming you are running the Windows, I recommend a program called "Winamp" and another called "DBPowerAmp" both of which are available at www.download.com. I'd recommend reading up on "lossy" vs. "lossless" formatting of media as this is a must for the treasure trove that is available all over the web; the most comprehensive of them all being:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aetree%20AND%20creator%3A%22Grateful%20Dead%22

And now, thankfully, we have downloads available here.

Hope this helps...

thank you rob!

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On June 27th, 2007 marye said:

and if anyone can offer a similar tutorial for us mac folks, I'm all ears.

thank you, Rob

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On June 27th, 2007 c_c said:

thank you Rob, I appeciate your taking the time to explain it.

I was never very good at following instructions... but

next rainy day project is I'll try this downloading agin...

peace.

Confused on recording..

On July 3rd, 2007 ramble_on74 said:

I'm having trouble downloading the Taper's Section to burn. When I tried it at first, they would open in RealPlayer and I had no problems. But the last two weeks they have opened in a Quick Time player, with no burn or rip options. I have several saved to my desktop, but they are all in Quick Time. How can I transfer these files to burn some tunes? And how the hell did I get a Quick Time player? As a plug-in or something? I'm fairly computer savvy, so anyone who responds doesn't have to break it down to the elementary level. PLEASE HELP!! I NEED THIS MUSIC!!

ramble_on74

Quick Time problem

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On July 6th, 2007 pauli said:

Sounds like you recently installed a new version of QuickTime and it took over your preferences for listening to mp3 files. The files are still mp3. You should open Real Player and re-associate mp3s with it. Even if you don't do this you can still play and burn them by opening Real Player and then opening the files in Real Player.

I need help with ongoing project....

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On July 14th, 2007 KJ7XJ said:

Hi all -
I have over 1000 tapes that I am in the process of uploading to my iMac.

I have 2 kids 3 and under...So you can understand why this is onoing....

Heres my set up -

Sony cassette deck with RCA outputs split out - one to tuner/amp and the other to the computer.The splitter is a RCA to 8th in stereo plug. Computer is iMac G3 500Mhz DV model. Stand alone burner (cant remember the brand) The program Im using is Audicity (which all the folks on the apple.com site suggested)

Issues - I am having issues with the Audicity program. It seems that I can only get it to record onto one channel. I can change the program to read in Mono but then its not a true stero recording.. Who on here knows this program??

I down loaded another recording platform which I cant remeber the name, but it recorded perfectly to AIFF and when I saved it to the HD the program saved it into WAV form and now the saved file clips. so out goes that program and Im going back to the origional.

Who out here in techie-land knows Audicity and can help me out OR who can suggest a different (easier) platform to get my analog tapes to a digital format based on my setup. Thanks...Drop me a note or post it here...

Eric

yeah, post here

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On July 14th, 2007 marye said:

because I have a feeling a lot of us face similar issues.

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