[Empeg-general] Re: Cassette tapes

[jarob10@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

i have been through this learning curve - heres my solution :

1. Audiograbber to rip through line in.
2. Batch normalise using audiograbber
3. Use CD Wave editor http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~mjmlooijmans/cdwave/ to auto split the 90 minute tape, or split at intervals (I use every 6 mins) if there are no audible gaps.  Manually trim the start & stop point, and the break during the auto reverse phase.  Save as a list of new fragmented wav files, delete the previous unfragmented file.  This is v. time consuming and is  - i believe - hard drive access speed rather than processor limited.  I tend to process two wav's at once from each of my two hard drives to ease the frustration.
4. Batch encode using razor lame
5. Tag using tag and rename - either manually or via the builkt in allmusic.com feature.  This software is awesome and (almost) entirely replaced my other tagging software. 
6. Create new directory structure using tag and rename, then integrate into your current playlist directory
6. Hit sync !

best of luck

John