transfering cassette to digital

[Rudy Troike]

Howdy, Dale,

  A few years ago I bought a Philips CD recorder, and just play my
cassettes and record them directly to the CDs. At the time the CD
recorder was about $250, and blank CDs are cheap. There are units
for copying CDs at high speed, which would be useful for making
back-up copies. We still don't know much about the life expectancy
of CDs, so multiple copies are highly desirable.

  It does take time to transfer the cassette to CD, since you just
have to play the cassette all the way through. But doing so only
requires going back at the end of each track and switching it, so
one doesn't have to sit on top of the operation all the time it is
going on. I wouldn't hesitate someone who is retired to do it.

  Rudy

  Rudy Troike
  U of Arizona


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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:53:14 -0700
Subject: transfering cassette to digital
From: Dale McCreery <mccreery at UVIC.CA>

Hi guys,

There’s a large collection of recordings of Sgüüx̱s on the opposite
side of the country from me on cassette, and I was wondering a) what is
the best, safest, least risky, way to transfer all those to digital files
and if any of you have any experiences with doing that, and b) if there
was an entity that provided funding or expertise for digitalizing audio
recordings, scanning fieldnotes, etc (in Canada) as I wouldn’t like ask
someone who is already retired to spend a large amount of their own money
getting everything digitalized and scanned, as they have none of the
equipment, and neither they nor I have a source of funding at hand.
thanks!

ap luk’wil n t’ooyax̱sism,

-Dale McCreery