Yet even another CD burning question, Part II

Factual Questions
1

I plan on getting a new computer w/CD burner soon and one of my projects is to transfer my Stephen King “Dark Tower” audiobooks to CD-R. At what rate should I make these copies considering that, for the most part, the tapes contain only speech?

2

I would say 64k at the very most. You could do it as low as 24k and it will be clear and understandable, but sound very tinny, like it was coming through the telephone.

3

I can’t say as I know the technical specifications, but this doesn’t seem to be a question of speed. The only thing I can think of for you to do is to record the cassettes with a microphone as a .wav file and then transfer it to a CD-R at whatever the speed of your burner is.

4

Re transfer get a Radio Shack attenuation adapter or cable to take cassette headphone level output to mike input of sound card. This will make cleanest copy. If your soundcard has a line input in additon to mike input a standard stereo (or mono depending on output) line input cable should work fine.

Do not use a mike next to a speaker if at all possible as this introduces a lot of distortion into the sound.

5

I doubt I could post any type of link to one… but couldnt you just search an engine like, Google, and then enter something like- “mp3 audio book” and if that didnt hit then you could enter the magic word for “hacking” included with previous phrase.

I dont think it would take you straight to hell, since you already own the cassette…

6

actually, a lot of his books are now ebooks or have been pirated into same. There is a ebook newsgroup with tons of free books. That’s text true, not audio. Maybe you could use a text to speech program on the ebooks.

7

Do you really want to hear a text to speech program telling you Stephen King’s stories?

I think a great deal of the suspense and mystery would disappear if Stephen Hawking was reading them.

8

I just checked Napster, and there are hundreds of Stephen King audio files that (I assume) are mp3s of the books on tape. If you already have the tapes, why bother doing all that recording work when somebody else has done it for you?

9

One problem is download time. Anyway, I’d rather do it myself since I’m a gadget freak and like to learn how to use such high-tech stuff.