Need for geek help

[fiddleteacher]

Does anyone reading this know how to put an audiocassette into the computer so as to be able to burn the contents of the tape onto a CD? I have several tapes in my classroom that are pretty much useless because they are on tape and it's too hard to find the track you need while the classroom erupts into loud, disorganized confusion. I asked the

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[off_coloratura]

For this kind of thing, brian and I use Audio Hijack and an iMic.

Set up Audio Hijack so it's recording the sound from your USB port, plug the iMic into the headphone jack of a cassette player using a double-male minijack cable, plug the iMic into the USB port and play the cassette into the computer. You'll have to do the track separations either as you record in real time, recording a separate file for each track and stopping in between, or by editing the larger file after you're done recording using MP3 trimmer. (you'll have to convert the Audio Hijack file into MP3 before you do that, and iTunes can do that handily.)

[off_coloratura]

Just read your post again, and realized by "no tracks" you mean he did record all the cassette but it isn't separated into tracks. If you've already got the one long file without separate tracks, then I guess all you need is MP3 Trimmer! Easy peasy!

[fiddleteacher]

No, I meant he said he *could* do that, but hasn't. I've been asked to be considerate of his time, so probably won't ask him to do the transfer. That leaves me, but I was rather hoping not to have to learn new technology in order to get the job done. At least not right now.But it sure would be nice to have the tapes in CD format!

[off_coloratura]

Well, since nothing you know right now will get the job done, you're going to have to learn new technology if you want to do this. But both the programs I referred to have simple manuals that tell you how to work them, and the iMic is a very, very simple device.

You're smart. I know you can do this.

[rydot]

Don't you live with an Audio Engineer? ;)

Otherwise, you've already had good advice posted above ^^^

[fiddleteacher]

As you know, his schedule and mine only rarely intersect, so it's hard to ask things. He runs his own life and I'm trying to be the sort of mom who only asks when all else fails. Mostly I can figure things out - better than nearly everyone at my school - but when instructions have a lot of vocabulary I don't understand, it's hard, especially when I don't have time to figure it out.