Found a pristine cassette recorder too - if I use ye olde iMac to digitize my cassettes, should I just use QuickTime to record? Or buy some other software?
I lost my old cleaning cassette - remember those blue devices and the little bottle of cleaner?
@Streakmachine Definitely have heard good things about Audacity just in passing over the years. Do you think QuickTime would yield the same audio quality? I am not after perfection, just the known quality I remember from these tapes.
@mandy Hm. Probably passable quality with QuickTime. Should be an save/export option for AAC with good bitrate, unless they changed that since last I needed it.
@Streakmachine I never found anything in QT for AAC, the files ended up aifc. Since I still have the tape I can always redo it when I decide on the “right” way. Maybe the option exists in QuickTime and I couldn’t find it. Also, I am only on Mac os 10.12.
@Wife We have a USB DVD drive now for CDs. I got rid of my formerly prized Sony Walkman because it couldn’t play cassettes anymore. They can be repaired, but I found this nearly unused Realistic unit while cleaning out my parents’ basement!