In 1965 my mother made some reel to reel tapes about local history and recently I sent them to Southtreebucks to Southtree to digitize the tapes to CD ROM. Southtree only does data dumping. They don't help with playback speed issues. So now I have a bunch of CDs and only 1/3 of them are intelligible. Now I have two choices 1. Repair the old recorder/
digitizing. Little did I know that my mother was not consistent with her recording speeds and the old recorder she used has three speeds, normal, slow and fast. And little did I know that Southtree does not help with playback speeds so I spent 250
I just picked up a cheap AGPtEK mp3 player that, so far, I have been
quite impressed with considering the cheap price. Anyway, one of the settings is variable speed playback. I set it below normal and when it encountered an MP3 file, the song played slower in speed, but pitch
remained constant (this function didn't seem to work on anything other
than MP3 files (not FLAC, for example)). Anyway, I'm wondering what
purpose this has? In the studio, matching singer pitch maybe to a
track, but jogging or listening in the car, not sure why.
Thanks,
John
In 1965 my mother made some reel to reel tapes about local history and
recently I sent them to Southtree
digitizing. Little did I know that my mother was not consistent with
her recording speeds and the old recorder she used has three speeds,
normal, slow and fast. And little did I know that Southtree does not
help with playback speeds so I spent 250 bucks to Southtree to
digitize the tapes to CD ROM. Southtree only does data dumping. They
don't help with playback speed issues. So now I have a bunch of CDs
and only 1/3 of them are intelligible. Now I have two choices 1.
Repair the old recorder/player so that I can playback the tapes at
the right speed or find a variable speed audio player so that I can
slow down or speed up the CD audio playback. Thats my needed purpose.
With a little computer savvy, you could 'rip' the CD audio
to sound files, and resample them so they play back at the
correct speed. Something like Audacity can likely do this.
bucks to Southtree to digitize the tapes to CD ROM. Southtree only does data dumping. They don't help with playback speed issues. So now I have a bunch of CDs and only 1/3 of them are intelligible. Now I have two choices 1. Repair the old recorder/playerIn 1965 my mother made some reel to reel tapes about local history and recently I sent them to Southtree
digitizing. Little did I know that my mother was not consistent with her recording speeds and the old recorder she used has three speeds, normal, slow and fast. And little did I know that Southtree does not help with playback speeds so I spent 250
With a little computer savvy, you could 'rip' the CD audio
to sound files, and resample them so they play back at the
correct speed. Something like Audacity can likely do this.
Then you'd have to burn the files back to CD, if for some
strange reason that's the medium that you desire.
Toby
On Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 11:05:15 AM UTC-5, John Battersby wrote:
I just picked up a cheap AGPtEK mp3 player that, so far, I have been
quite impressed with considering the cheap price. Anyway, one of the
settings is variable speed playback. I set it below normal and when it
encountered an MP3 file, the song played slower in speed, but pitch
remained constant (this function didn't seem to work on anything other
than MP3 files (not FLAC, for example)). Anyway, I'm wondering what
purpose this has? In the studio, matching singer pitch maybe to a
track, but jogging or listening in the car, not sure why.
Thanks,
John
In 1965 my mother made some reel to reel tapes about local history and recently I sent them to Southtreebucks to Southtree to digitize the tapes to CD ROM. Southtree only does data dumping. They don't help with playback speed issues. So now I have a bunch of CDs and only 1/3 of them are intelligible. Now I have two choices 1. Repair the old recorder/
digitizing. Little did I know that my mother was not consistent with her recording speeds and the old recorder she used has three speeds, normal, slow and fast. And little did I know that Southtree does not help with playback speeds so I spent 250
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