[DM-MUG] Convertint LP and audio tapes

[Darcy Baston]

Like CW said, Audacity is a good choice. If you've already got  
GarageBand as part of iLife, it'll do well too.

I use an M-Audio MobilePre USB for my sound input needs. Here's a  
neat USB turntable you could use for the vinyl:

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/usb-turntable-more- 
vinyl-to-cd-goodness-141195.php

iTunes won't record, but it will audio media format convert. So if  
you capture in AIFF using Audacity, you can then compress to MP3/AAC/ 
Apple Lossless inside iTunes, or benefit from the iTunes integration  
workflow features of GarageBand.

Do you have a component cassette deck to play the tapes from?  
Audacity will be a better waveform editor to help remove hiss from  
cassette recordings.

Darcy

On Dec 23, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:

I have a number of vinyl lps and tapes which I would like to get onto  
my computer so that I could burn CDs of them. My wife's iBook G3 has  
only the internal mic for sound input and the Mac mini G4 doesn't  
seem to have any sound input. I Googled sound input adapters and  
found a number of USB devices which might do the job. The scenario I  
envision is playing the music on the stereo into an adapter on the  
Mac mini , using iTunes to capture it and save it, then organize it  
and burn to CD.  Would this work? and are there any recommendations  
as to adapters?

Thanks.

-- 
Ray Bowler