Re: [IRCA] transferring recordings from cassettes to digital media

[Rick Kunath <k9ao@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

CHARLES HUTTON wrote:

> - with 32 kb MP3, each cassette (assumed mono) will need 14.4 MB so all 25 
> cassettes will need 360 MB and therefore fit onto a single CD easily. You 
> could double the rate to 64 kb and still fit everything on 1 CD if you want 
> more than "DX" quality.
> 
> - if you want to make a music CD, you can normally fit 80 minutes on a CD. 
> Just to make things easier, let's say you make a CD per cassette to keep 
> from having to split stuff across CD's. So you're talking about 25 CD's.
> 
> - if you want to make a CD full of wav files (but as a data CD not a music 
> CD), let's say you pick 11.025 kHz sampling at 16 bits. That's 79.38 MB per 
> cassette so you could fit 10 cassettes on a normal CD.

And there is always the DVD data disk option with 6 times the capacity 
of an 80-minute CD.

They're almost as universally playable as a CD. CDs are pretty 
ubiquitous though.

USB drives will lose data, I can assure you, so make sure to have other 
permanent backups available if you go that route.

Rick Kunath

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