Is this a silent conversion or do I have to play the tape aloud in order to convert them? Don't want to hear the audio book while transfering them.
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If you are converting tapes, you need to be in the vicinity in order to turn it over. I was converting tapes I had not heard before so didn't mind listening to them. You will need to adjust volume so I guess the answer is set it up and then walk away for awhile. Just don't go too far. I didn't use the splitter ... just listened through the computer speakers.
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No, you don't have to listen to the entire thing but I would make sure the audio is sounding good before you commit the entire thing only to realize that it's over modulated or so messed up as to not be listenable. If you can hear the sound when you press fast forward on the cassette player, you can actually record the audio using fast forward and then using the software you can slow the audio down and it will sound perfect saying you time.
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I use a boombox for my Cassettes so i can do it eather way. Use a dual mini Plug out of the Boombox or what ever you are using this way you can check your conversion and listen if you want. Off of the duel plug one side to your computer and the other side to a headset or whatever you want to monitor your conversion with. works just fine. Good Luck. OneBigSki
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In orden to connect your cassette player to your computer you have to use the jack port for headphone. Therefore you can't listen what you're playing back unless you change the setting to listen through the computer speakers. An option different than this is using a splitter in your cassette player to connect your computer and your headphones at the same time with better control when to stop the convertion and paying attention to the sound's quality.
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It's silent. I use headphones to make sure it's working as it should. I somehow have suddenly picked up a squeal in the software, Audacity though. My player has a headphone jack on it so I don't need to add anything. Just plug it into the computer.
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You will not hear the tape unless you take special measures and set the computer on hear audio while recording.
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It's silent. I use an audio splitter so I can connect headphones as well to make sure I'm transferring the desired material.
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The answer to the guys question is no you have to convert the mp3 files to WAV which you could do for free online
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I was wondering the same thing. we have never transferred them to vhs and no longer have a vcr. any suggestions for the easiest way to transfer would help.
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You would need something to actually play the tapes. This just converts incoming A/V to digital.
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Steve, the recording quality was very bad and we ended up returning the unit. My older sister has an immense album collection we want to convert but we are still looking for a good quality converter and have yet to find one. This has been some years now since we started looking. good luck mc
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If you use i-20 SPDIF (digital coax/optical output) it should bypass its internal DAC, at least it is what PURE announces. Mine sounds amazing, but I sincerely don't know exactly where convert process occurs. In my case I've connected it through SPDIF to M1DAC Musical Fidelity and all sources connected to i-20 sounds amazing.
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I had one of these sony recorders. I could not get the thing to work right. It made 1 or 2 Dvds, & that was it. I sent it back, got my money back, & never used one again. I do not think it will covert the codec( the NTSC) format, but I'm not sure. Do you have a computer? If you do, There's a huge variety of dvd direct to pc coverter systems to chose from. I'd try that.
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I have done several recording from vhs to dvd without any problems so maybe if you could provide me a few more details I could steer you in the right direction. The instruction manual is quite complicated and it is easy to miss a important step so tell me what you did any I'll try and sort out the problem. If you have the instruction manual list the steps found in it so I can be sure you are doing the right things.
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Can you send me the link for that filter box? I really want to convert my copyrighted VHS tapes to DVDs but haven't found a way to do so. Can you explain to me how you did it? (trimthehedges@gmail.com)
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I think the book says it will transfer records and tapes to cds.check your book that came with the recorder player. I haven't tried to do it so I am only going with what the book says
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I believe so - I was converting VHS "C" format & 8MM. Very cumbersome process and I had to find a player that played those devices. Somebody has to come our with a better system. But after ,many hours (dyas) I did get 2-3 movies to come out fairly clean and audible.
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Added thought... I want to use Audacity software to help with the conversion. Again, any thoughts? Thanks!
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My friend has been using this converter and here is the reponse he sent to the question......I guarantee he did not go to his sound settings depending if he has windows XP, Win 7 or 8. It looks like this below. Sometimes you have to manually set it since your computer may not be ready to draw sound from the device to the speakers.
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I have to put the volume on max (Level 32) to avoid this (though sometimes I don't need to do this). Also, to avoid this problem, I make sure that the volume is high on the source audio when I transfer the mp3s to the device. I notice that low volume is a problem if the original recording was recorded at low volume levels. Hope this helps.
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In reference to converting old VHS to DVD; there is an option to finalize later. The length of time it takes to finalize the disk as I recall isn't very long, especially compared to the time it takes to transcribe the source video.
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The video/audio feature can be manipulated in the transfer to another device. If you are using the video/audio analog output to dub to a DVD recorder etc - you simply can leave the audio jacks unplugged. When uploading to a PC via the mini usb - the audio could be muted out in the final editing process. NOTE - The audio/video ALWAYS remains intact in the Veho unit itself until it has been cleared. West Island Weather Station / Operations
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I've only used them for burning films, so I would know nothing about how effective they are with something purely audio as opposed to that which is audio/video. I do know that their fail rate is practically non-existent. Also: I once had a friend who owned a large collection of classical music that he had recorded onto videocassette, since the amount of data transferred onto video tape is significantly more than what could be transferred onto audio tape. So here's hoping this helps in answering your question.