USB cassette decks

[anshackles]

Been looking at a few, any one care to offer comment or recommendation?  None I've seen so far have detail of what quality conversion they do: I'd regard 320Kbit MP3 as a minimum, or variable to the same sort of level.

There a a lot of cassettes here, some are probably difficult or impossible to replace, and I'd like to digitise them for posterity

Comments

[g8bur]

When I last did this, I played the cassettes in a Walkman, and fed the output into the line-in socket of the sound card, via a home-molished dummy load/attenuator; I've done the same with several of my mini-discs, using my portable MD recorder/player. Both worked fine. I just used Spin Doctor (I think that was its name - it came with Easy CD Creator) to write the incoming sound as .mp3 to the HDD, then burnt CDs from them as required.

[klonecaid]

Is there any real point recording cassette at 320kb/s? Surely it's like ripping VHS at 1080i...

[anshackles]

Could be a point there. Most of these are pre-recorded classical, some may be decent quality :) I just don't want to introduce any further artifacts or such.