DIGITISING MY CASSETTE COLLECTION
December 24, 2023
Happy holidays and welcome to this holiday project!
A short post on my adventures in digitising my cassettes and compact disks! This was certainly a fun and well-spent afternoon! I have a myriad of physical audio media and in preparation for moving away - actually in quite a very long time, still - I have decided to get a "head start" in the digitalisation of my catalogue.
I only tried one today and that was because of the bulk of the time was spent figuring out how to do it and writing code for the template, of which the rest of the catalogue can be done much easier now with the template ready and the technological side sorted out beforehand.
Firstly, I had to figure out a way to receive audio input. The only computer I had which still had a "line in" jack on the back of it (not counting my almost broken digital sound recorder) was my trusty HP Desktop, which rocks a Dual Core Pentium and runs Windows XP! No problem with that though, since I use this computer almost on a daily basis.
Audacity was my software of choice for the recording part.
I used this cassette boombox with the headphone jack running into the computer's "line in"
The album of choice today is ELVIS' Gold Records. One of my favourites
And of course, every good project consists of some HTML work, and so I wrote some HTML and (in this case also needed) Javascript for the playing of the audio — along with selectable songs, jumping to predefined timestamps on the file (the whole cassettes Side A & B were saved as one file.)
The Javascript coding took forever to do!