If you've purchased the
Irish On Your Own set, and find that you can not play the cassette tapes in your vehicle (as I discovered when my tape player bit the dust - but the CD player still worked), you may be interested in a little piece of software that helps you copy from cassette to CD from Blaze Audio. The program is called "RipEditBurn" They have a 30 day evaluation trial copy so you have nothing to lose in giving it a shot. I bought the full package and plan to copy all of my cassette tapes. (You can do vinyl LPs as well!)
You simply need a decent tape player - like a shelf unit - not necessarily a mega stereo component piece of electronic equipment - although you can certainly use it if you have it! I just didn't want to disassemble all of the components in the entertainment unit, so I just temporarily moved the small shelf unit in next to the computer. You just need the main piece as you can hear what's going on through your computer speakers.
If you have an RCA jack on your soundcard and and a line out on your stereo "source" you are good to go. If not, you can still do it with a line-in jack on your sound card, you just don't get the same quality sound. Even if you have older equipment without the line out jack, if you have a pre-amp, you can still do it, it's just a little more difficult. But they have pretty good instructions and there is a help forum as well.
Be sure to take the "Wave Breaker" trial as well so that you can break the tape lessons into smaller segments to burn to your CDs. You can not fit as much on a CD as they have on the cassettes. But I only had to use 6 CDs to get the 5 tapes copied over.
You can make the tracks as wave files OR as MP3s.
Here's the site:
www.blazeaudio.com
They give you free upgrades for life, so every time they make an improvement or enhancement, you can download it for free.
They've just released an enhancement to remove voice tracks from files, as well as removing just characteristics from either the left or the right channel. Pretty cool stuff.
