dunagan wrote: > Hi Folks, > I need some help and/or advice. A man asked me for help yesterday on what I > think would be a very worthwhile project, but I have not the faintest idea > of where to start. > He has 50+ hours of interviews on cassette tapes of Gibson County WWI, WWII > and Korean War vets telling their tales of home life and experiences in the > service. He is wanting to have it put together as a book for the libraries. Barry, I have several tapes which were recorded back in the 1970s of my aunts, uncles and a grandfather and misc friends. I have a sound card in my PC as well as a CD-Recorder. With the Adaptec software which came with my CD-R, along with the necessary cable, I hooked up a cassette deck to my sound card and digitized the tapes to create Wave files. Since I wanted to place the tapes onto CDs, I had to digitize using the stereo 44.1Khz sampling rate (which was a major overkill) but the result is a CD that will play on any musical CD player. Going this route, I was limited to about 65-70 minutes per CD. The process is quite simple - record one side of the tape and create one large Wave file (you need a about 1-GB of free HD to do this) and then edit the Wave file by splitting it up into the appropriate number of Wave files (i.e. one Wave file per interview). The Adaptec software will take the 44.1Khz stereo Wave files and convert them to "music" tracks on the CD-R. If you wanted to make a CD which could only be played on a computer, that opens several other options. Two options I'm aware of is by recording Wave files in "mono" at a rate of about "22Khz." This would allow you to place up to 4X times more audio onto a CD, but it would have to stay as Wave files - thus played only on a computer. Another option is to create MP3 files from the 44.1Khz stereo Wave files. MP3 is a compression technique used in "MPEG" DVD type movies to compress audio. Using MP3, you can usually place about 10 hours of CD-quality audio onto a single CD - however, again, you can only play the audio back by using the computer. Hope this helps. Take care, Eddy G. Clark