Re: Apple II cassettes by Brutal Deluxe Software

["Jayson Smith" <ihatespamratguynospamplease@insightbb.spamsucks.com>]

I would tend to stay away from Dolby or any other noise reduction 
methodologies where computer data are concerned. Computers are so much more 
sensitive than humans when it comes to reading data from an audio source. It 
might be that the tapes have deteriorated enough that properly reading the 
data is impossible. This could be especially true if, while listening to the 
audio going into your computer from the tape deck, you hear audio dropouts. 
If this is the case, there could well be no way of recovering the data, 
short of finding another copy of the same cassette in better shape. One 
suggestion, if you have the type of Apple system the software requires, have 
you tried hooking a cassette recorder up to the Apple directly and doing a 
read the old fashioned way? If the Apple itself can read the data and the 
software works fine, but CiderPress can't recognize the wav files, that 
would seem to indicate that something's wrong either with your tape deck or 
something in your computer setup.
     I don't know if you plan to do this, but I think it would be 
interesting to have the actual audio files of the cassette tapes. That way, 
someone could, at least in theory, hook their computer up to a real Apple 
and load the programs in the old fashioned way.
Jayson

"Toinet" <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> wrote in message 
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> Dear All,
>
> An update to the project:
> - the scans are of poor-quality but done
> - all cassettes but Apple (ones and several others*) have been
> converted to a computerized-form (thanks to Audacity and Ciderpress)
>
> Find the first files here: 
> http://www.brutal-deluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/cassette.po
>
> I am really surprised and pleased to see that the cassettes are in
> general good state and can be read easily. Nevertheless, some of them
> fail to be recognized by ciderpress after being "audacitized" in mono
> at 22 kHz- I use a double-deck cassette player linked to my Hi-Fi
> system with a jack ribbon from the jack sound output of the cassette
> player to the line input of my MacBook. When ciderpress does not
> recognize the WAV file, I use the Dolby noise reductions (B and C) of
> the cassette player but that still fails.
>
> Any ideas on other techniques to get them with Audacity and
> Ciderpress?
>
> Regards,
>
> Antoine Vignau
> Brutal Deluxe Software
>