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    From rdelaney2001@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 1 15:38:43 2018
    I have a box of old cassettes in the attic (like a
    million other blokes). Rather than consigning them
    to the dust bin, I'd convert them to MP3 files. Anybody
    have suggestions for a converter?

    I could buy one blind, from Amazon or Best Buy, but
    I wonder if there are differences in quality, among
    competing models.

    I plan to do one tape per day. It should require minimal
    baby sitting - just start it, then let it run to completion,
    and switch off, on its own.

    PS Some of the tapes are metal, some CrO2, some plain
    vanilla (whatever that means). And differing cutoff filters.
    So that's a complication. As I recall, there were players which could recognize these various types. How did they do that?

    --
    Rich

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  • From Richard Jones@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 21 11:19:11 2018

    PS Some of the tapes are metal, some CrO2, some plain
    vanilla (whatever that means). And differing cutoff filters.
    So that's a complication. As I recall, there were players which could recognize these various types. How did they do that?

    --
    Rich

    As I recall, there were cut-outs on the top edge of the cassette,
    similar to the record protection notch.

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  • From Charlie+@21:1/5 to news@rgjones.screaming.net on Wed Aug 22 07:56:00 2018
    On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 11:19:11 +0100, Richard Jones
    <news@rgjones.screaming.net> wrote as underneath :


    PS Some of the tapes are metal, some CrO2, some plain
    vanilla (whatever that means). And differing cutoff filters.
    So that's a complication. As I recall, there were players which could recognize these various types. How did they do that?

    --
    Rich

    As I recall, there were cut-outs on the top edge of the cassette,
    similar to the record protection notch.

    I think the bigger thing to watch for - is were they originally recorded
    with Dolby (usually B but possibly C on very high end recorders) or not.
    Many later commercial tapes even used Dolby..
    If your modern transfer player doesn't recognise Dolby encoding and
    un-encode it, you would need to at least correct for hiss etc in the
    MP3s. Depends on your perception! C+

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