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One of the less common requests that we get is to take digitize the audio from a cassette tape and convert it to a digital formatsome archaic medium like Cassettes and Records.  This process is completed in Audacity, using the equipment attached to Station 4 at PEPS.

Step-By-Step Guide

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1. Insert the tape medium into the cassette appropriate player.  It doesn't matter which slot.  Just  For cassettes, the slot is irrelevant - just make sure that you know what audio will be on the side that you insertare recording from.
2. In Audacity, make sure that the input is set Select the player on the audio switch and set Audacity's input to "Built-In Line-In" NOTE: This is different from "Built-In Digital-In"
3. Press play on the cassette player, and wait for the audio bars in Audacity to register incoming audio.
4. Rewind the tape to a second or so before the audio started to register
5. Press record in Audacity and Play on the cassetterelevant device
6. Check on the progress regularly .  While this is not necessary, it does reduce the amount of terminating silence that will have to be delete- Audacity doesn't know when the media stops playing, so if you don't check often, you'll have a large silent tail.
7. When the recording is done, press stop in Audacity and (if needed) on the cassette player.
8. Trim the silent parts from the beginning and ending of the track in Audacity.
9. If the client wants the audio split into tracks, select each track (click and drag, shift + arrows) in the recording and copy them to their own projects.
10. Export.  If there are multiple tracks, export each track individually.
11. Be For Cassettes, be sure to check for whether the tape is double-sided.  If it is, repeat steps 1-98.

Some Helpful Pictures

From the left: Pause, Play, Stop (unclickable), Previous, Next, Record

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