[MacDV] Re: Importing sound from audio cassettes

[sb]

Brian,

Your challenge is to get the analog (boombox) audio converted to  
digital (computer) audio.

You'll need some sort of hardware device.

Possibly, the lowest cost is the Griffin iMic, I don't know what else  
is out there that's similar. It's about $30.
It takes the red/white RCA outputs of the boombox (or other stereo  
device) and has USB to go into the computer.

You have a choice of software to control the capture. The iMic comes  
with some, or you can use the free download Audio Recorder 3.2, for  
example.

Once it's digital and on your computer, it goes into iTunes just by  
drag and drop or file>import.

HTH,

sb


On Aug 19, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Brian Olesky wrote:

> I have some audio cassettes with stuff I'd like to import into my  
> MBP for
> adding to a DVD I'm making. It's not music, so the quality doesn't  
> have to
> be perfect, though I'd like it to be as good as possible. Is there  
> some
> simple way of importing it, like simply running some kind of cable  
> from the
> headphone jack on a boombox into some port on my MBP? And once  
> imported, can
> I simply add it to iTunes and edit from there? I've poked around the
> internet and seen all kinds of things like using Audacity, for  
> example, but
> is there some simple way?
>
> TIA,
> Brian