splitting tracks

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 11 Feb 2004 9:42 pm

What is a good program to record from Cassette a whole bunch of songs into the computer line in, then splitting them into individual tracks and rename them.??

There must be some one who has experience with programs to do this. Which software program do you like? Thanks...al

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Lou[NE] · Post by **Lou[NE]** » 12 Feb 2004 12:32 am

Check out Total Recorder from www.highcriteria.com i'm well pleased with it - works well and is cheap. Good luck.

Doug Seymour · Post by **Doug Seymour** » 12 Feb 2004 4:58 pm

Al, someone here suggested poulderbitS.com after I had painfully recorded quite a few, one tune @ a time, so I could separate them. I think it was $19.95 & downloadable from their web site. It has worked well for me. I just downloaded Ripvinyl,($7.95) but so far haven't done as well with it. It's probably me?, but even though I like the VU meters better, I haven't been able to separate w/it?
don't understand why?

Vernon Hester · Post by **Vernon Hester** » 12 Feb 2004 10:52 pm

I use Sound Forge from Sonic Foundry. Easy to use and lets you copy and paste edit plus about 33 other effects. For multi-tracks, I use Magix Video and Music.
Nice
Vern

Russ Wever · Post by **Russ Wever** » 13 Feb 2004 2:07 am

Al,
I was about to suggest Polderbits, but when I went to their website to give you the 'link' ( click > here) I was surprised to see their price is now a nickle under $30 (it was initially $12 when I bought a copy several years ago, then later I had seen that it was $20 for a time).
However, you can download a trial version for no cost.
When I was beginning to transfer cassette and vinyl-to-hard-drive someone here suggested Polderbits and I found it to be very simple and easy program to learn and operate - there's actually very little to 'learn' due to the simplicity of the program.
I'd recommend at least downloading the 14-day trial version.
~Russ

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 13 Feb 2004 12:10 pm

Thanks , Guys, for all your advice. Doug and Russ.
I will try the polderbits. As you say it was real easy to learn and I don't want to have to go to school again.
The trial period is a good idea, too.

Thanks again and I'll report how I am doing, getting all those songs finally on the computer. The cassettes are getting bad from age, some I made from 1950....al

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Carter York · Post by **Carter York** » 16 Feb 2004 9:38 am

I swear by CDWav. It's super easy to use, it allows you to record as well. But most importantly, it lets you 'track' out a large wave file... I use it for LP sides as well as minidisc and cassette inputs...

Here is a link: http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~mjmlooijmans/cdwave/

Carter

DroopyPawn · Post by **DroopyPawn** » 22 Feb 2004 5:36 pm

I use Cakewalk SONAR 3.

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Gere Mullican · Post by **Gere Mullican** » 24 Feb 2004 9:13 am

I use Cakewalk. I have been doing it the slow way, one song at a time til I got Cakewalk. Put the cassette and let it record then go in and bust them into tracks and rename each one. Its really a "piece of cake".
Gere

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 24 Feb 2004 12:25 pm

I use Roxio Easy Creator Platinum and edit them the way Gere described. I don't to a lot of sound cleaning other than what I set on the way in, but I do like to trim the lead-in and trailing silence. The burner program will replace the 2-second silence between tracks.

With live recordings I don't do any of that trimming but I do save each track separately and then burn them with the "disc-at-once" setting so it doesn't insert the 2-second silence between tracks.

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Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 4 Mar 2004 8:13 pm

Gere-I like the idea of your Cakewalk proposal. That is what I want to do. Record the whole cassette, then go in and split the tracks and NAME all the songs and tracks at that time. Is that possible? Thanks again guys, you gave me some ideas....al

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Bobby Sparks · Post by **Bobby Sparks** » 4 Mar 2004 8:28 pm

I haven't used Cakewalk, but Cool Edit will let you do the same thing as far as recording a whole tape or lp and then splitting it up into its indvidual tracks and naming them. Also has noise reduction and many other features too if you were to need them. I think Cool Edit has been bought out by Adobe now though, and it's now called Adobe Audition. Not an inexpensive program either...somewhere around $300 I think!!

BNS

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 5 Mar 2004 10:25 am

I use TRANSCRIBE.
It's a "recorder/slow-downer / trasposer" but it aslo lets you mark sections and split them to seperate files.

About $50 at http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/
You can try it for free.

I've also used Soundforge. It's very good, but expensive. Didn't Sony just purchase them? <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Joey Ace on 05 March 2004 at 10:26 AM.]</p></FONT>

Leon Grizzard · Post by **Leon Grizzard** » 5 Mar 2004 12:41 pm

Look at ripvinyl.com It is about eight bucks as a download. It recognizes the silence between the tunes, and starts a new sound file for each one.

Gere Mullican · Post by **Gere Mullican** » 7 Mar 2004 9:35 am

I must apologize. I mistakenly said I use Cakewalk to split tracks. I should have said GOLDWAVE. I used it again last night by recording a couple of cuts from a cassette and then went back and split them in to two separate files. It worked like a champ. Again I apologize for mistakenly giving the wrong program name.
Gere

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 7 Mar 2004 5:22 pm

Gere-Do you have a link to Goldwave? Thanks and isnt this Forum Great? ...al

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