Recording
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Re: Recording
I haven,t been idle on this post. Yesterday, i was recording some cassettes and exporting them as ".WAV" files to my exclusively music partition on my computer. I was then using a trial version of a third part music converter "Swift". I was able to convert the files to MP3s and left them in the same partition folder "FMusic" and created a sub-directory "cassettes". I then went into WMP11 and under options i activated the search for music files that were not in the library and to add them. It found all my recordings and transferred them to the library and i was able to find them and listen to them and add one to a 'playlist'. Today, i tried the same 'method' using Audacity. I recorded a cassette and then went to "File>Export as Mp3 and 'Save' in "FMusic". I filled in the box "Edit Metadata" and saved the metadata. It then exported the file as Mp3 and it went into "FMusic". I didn,t 'Save' changes before closing. I then repeated the steps of yesterday of having WMP search for music files not in the library and it found the file and inserted it into the library and i was able to see it and play it. So, for now, i can at least transfer these cassettes into Mp3s and get them onto my hard drive and into the WMP library. Since i want to end up being able to add items to playlists and transfer them to an Mp3 player, i hope i,m at least half-way there. Thanks very much for your help. p.s. it looks like i will have no DRM problems unless that comes about when i start transferring files or tracks to an Mp3 player. After all, these were all store bot cassettes or compilations made from them. Thanks again.
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waxcylinder
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Re: Recording
You should not encounter any DRM problems if all you are doing is playing and recording - it's only if you try to make digitalcopies that the DRM intervenes.
(The only exception being that if you have a CD with DRM that won't play on a PC or cannot be ripped. But this can be got round by playing it on a conventional CD deck/portable and recording in Audacity).
WC
(The only exception being that if you have a CD with DRM that won't play on a PC or cannot be ripped. But this can be got round by playing it on a conventional CD deck/portable and recording in Audacity).
WC
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Re: Recording
Happy to hear all is working well for you 
Now I am curious, what was the thing that helped you with lame_enc.dll?
I am curious whether I guess(ed) properly?
Now I am curious, what was the thing that helped you with lame_enc.dll?
I am curious whether I guess(ed) properly?
Re: Recording
I beleive it was inserting the "Lame library" and also the mention in one of the posts that i cld bypass "Lame" in exporting files, or, bearing in mind that i for now just wanted to get these files (particularly the compilations) onto my hard drive and was not for now concerned about editing etc. so i went for the direct "Export as Mp3" method.