Your reel to reel is not designed to play back at high speed. Depending on
the unit and the speed that the tapes were recorded at you may be able to
play back at a somewhat higher speed. But I doubt it would be enough
difference to justify the hassle of getting the sound back to the right
speed computationally.
The main hassle in transfering any old format like that is queing up the
tape, playing it, shutting it down, and then going to the next one. You
might be able to find some software that can identify the pauses to break
up
the songs depending on the source. But even that is sometimes not simple
as
some songs will carry into the next one and some songs will have
intentional
moments of silence.
There are services that do this.
"Digitaltoast" <digitaltoast@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> My parents have LOADS (I mean hundreds) of reel to reel tapes that
> they want to mp3-ify (not to CD).
> They have two reel-to-reel machines and they have a mac and I have a
> PC I could lend them.
> We were thinking of making a little production line of two machines
> going at once - processing the audio while the other started.
> But I believe in the tape copying world, it's possible to record to
> the PC at ultra-high speed and then just slow down in software.
> All this is a one-off even, audio quality isn't massively paramount
> (but it's music, so still im****tant) but if anyone can think of any
> way to speed this process up, we'd all be grateful!
> BTW, we were thinking of this box to get the sound into the Mac Mini
> (as it has no sound input)
> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=A18FW
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