It's possible that after 10 years, kids won't know what the heck cassette tape is. But back when I was a kid, it was a big deal to have a cassette tape recorder. And since then I spent a lot of time recording stuffs: songs, radio shows, audio production that I created by myself. It was was era of my creativity budding. Cassette tape recorder, just like computer today, was a platform of expressing myself.
And the time of cassette tape is about to end, and so are my collection of cassette tapes. I am in a long and consistent process of converting cassette tape content into MP3 format so that I can store them in DVDR disc. Here is a bunch of cassette tape with French and Japanese language tutorial radio program recorded in them. I listened through the Japanese program and was benefited from it. The French program was, on the other hand, not as attractive to me. However since Alice mentioned that she was interest in it, so took some time to process them too.
Speaking of processing cassette tape, there are two applications that definitely need to mention. I would not be able to complete my project until I have these two applications: MP3Gain and MP3DirectCut. They are both freeware and they both allow me to enhance and edit the converted MP3 (I use my iRiver to do high quality 320kbps Mp3 direct through the hardware) lossless. In fact, I was stuck for a while and had to suspend my conversion process because I couldn't seem to find a way to see audio gain level with the 320Kbps Mp3 I captured. Finally I decided that I don't give a damn as long as the trimmed file seems fine. And then mp3Gain flawlessly pumped up the volume. They are definitely critical for my work.
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