[MacDV] Re: Importing sound from audio cassettes

[James Asherman]

sb,
While your advice is practical and necessary on, say, a G4 Quicksilver,
Brian is using a MacBookPro. I looked it up. It has an audio-in jack  
on the side.
I started Garageband on my G5 tower here. It points at the miniplug on  
the back, into which I could plug anything.
He should already have Garageband .
No download or hardware beyond the correct cable seems, to me, to be  
necessary.
Am I wrong ? (seriously )
Jim

On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:26 PM, sb wrote:

> 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
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