Date   : Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:10:21 +0100
From   : "Chris Thornley" <C.J.Thornley@...>
Subject: Re: Tape to mp3

Hi,
       Related to this but I not to sure if its the case nowadays but when I
bought my BBC I had to buy an appropriate computer cassette record. I had
two audio recorders but could not use them with the supplied conversion lead
as they contained something called a VOGAD which adjusts the volume on
record or playback. Apparently these where common place an fitted to most
machines. The bbc recorder I was advised to buy did not contain the device
and work perfectly.
       Also I seem to remember someone submitting a suggestion to the micro user
mag that when he had difficulty playing tape into his micro he would dub
them to his reel to reel machine and record the using the highest quality
speed setting and was able to play them back successful into his bbc.
       What might be a suggestion to clean up old tape signals is to feed then
through a Schmitt trigger circuit and then record the output.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bbc-micro@... [mailto:owner-bbc-micro@...]
Sent: 12 April 2001 18:22
To: BBC Micro Mail List
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Tape to mp3


In message <001601c0c370$690591a0$d3a932d4@...>, Chris Richardson
<chris@...> writes
>Mark Usher said:
>
>> IIRC I suggested this to Chris Richardson about one and a half years ago.
>He
>> tried compressing a file to mp3 and then loading it into a BBC and it
>> worked.
>> Is this right Chris.
>
>Mark is right, I did. It was a bit hit and miss, but it worked. I suspect
my
>problem was with a poor tape deck and lead. With a decent lead, I reckon it
>should be easily possible.

If it is anything like the old tapes, then it stops working at all at
about 4 in the morning.
--
Ben