Tape to CDROM

[Deward]

Can anyone give me some pointers on transferring a tape of music to cdrom format? I have the music coming into a line-in port and can hear it through my computer speakers.

I tried Total Recorder but that program won't record the music coming in. I also tried that generic sound recorder in WinXP but it will only do 60 seconds at a time. I also know how to record it in my Intervideo program but I am not sure how to strip the audio out into a mp3 or wav file.

My wife is a nurse caring for a guy that is dying. The old guy used to be in a polka band 20+ years ago and we have a radio station that will play the music for him if we can get it into cd format.

[Tenuvil]

http://www.freecorder.com/

Musicmatch will probably do this also but it's kinda intrusive...

Basically once you get mp3s or wavs, just drag and drop them onto your CD-RW drive. Windows will see that you are copying audio files and will prompt you to make either a data CD or an audio CD.

[Deward]

Thanks I will give this a try. I have burned existing mp3s and ripped cdroms so that should be the easy part. Getting it from tape to computer is more interesting.

Is there any recommendations on whether to record the tape as one long audio file, or should I split the songs up separately and burn them that way? If I can avoid listening to 2 hours of polka music then I would be much happier.

[Tenuvil]

My guess is unless you monitor the recording and break tracks appropriately by song you'll end up with one long wav or mp3 file. I don't think either tool can split a long mp3 into separate tracks, I've only seen that functionality in higher end audio software like Cool Edit or Cakewalk.

[Tyek]

I have a CD burner/CD player as part of my stereo. Phillips and others make them. Just put in the tape, put in a blank CD and press start on both and it burns them and reads the breaks in songs.

That is the less techy way to go.