Audio tapes to MP3
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:56PM An old box full of audiotapes has been dusted out.
They contain precious recordings from 1977 to 1994..
Including the only tape of my childhood voice singing a few lines of "kandar Shasti kavasam", my grandpa reciting Vishnu Sahasranamam for me the day before I first left for the US of A, my grandma singing me my favorite Carnatic songs, audio of a concert where I got to sit on the stage (as Mic boy) and enjoy Lalgudi Jayaraman and his kids perform, etc. etc.
Most of the tapes seem to be deteriorating and I might have one chance to transfer them to digital format before they self destruct!
so the question is..
If any of you who read this blog in the US have converted Audio tapes to MP3, is there a product out there that you would recommend? (some kind of tape recorder that outputs MP3? or connects to your laptop through USB? and then you can import it into itunes?)
Please do let me know.
Life has been busy with work, ice cream, physiotherapy, listening to music, voting, enjoying time with the wife and kids, not particularly in any order..
Lots to write, but it has to wait. Until Friday...
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