My cassettes to MP3 collection saga

In earlier notes, I said I was working late and need something to keep me awal. I started converting my cassette tapes to MP3. The quality is not good since some of the tapes are in a bad condition. I can't complain since the tapes are quite old. Some of them are my collection from late 70s. So that's nearly 30 years! Part of the reasons I converting them is to preserve their songs. Most of them are not available in store anymore. Some of them reappeared though. (I bought five old tapes yesterday.)

The other reason of converting to MP3 is that my cassette players begin to show their age. I've got four players, two of them are already dead (collecting dusts). Another one is a little flakey. (I have serviced this machine twice.) Only one is in a good shape, but this one is a small portable (compo) player. The sound quality is not that great and there's not line out! Anyway, I used the flakey one and connected the line out of it to my sound card line in. It took a while to fiddle with the input gain (somewhere in control panel) to make a good quality audio sound. Otherwise, the audio is clipped and you'll hear distortions. Another problem is that those cassette tapes have different sound level.

The program that I used to do the conversion is audacity. It's an excellent free program. Horray for open source. It's available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac. I use the Windows version.

Ok ... here is a list of 59 songs that I have converted to MP3 last night:

achmad albar - secita cerita.mp3
david foster - chaka.mp3
david foster - heart strings.mp3
david foster - love at second sight.mp3
david foster - love look what youve done.mp3
david foster - mornin.mp3
david foster - night music.mp3
david foster - our romance.mp3
david foster - the best of me.mp3
david foster - the dancer.mp3
david foster - whatever we imagine.mp3
david gates - silky.mp3
deddy stanzah - sepercik-air.mp3
fariz - nada-cinta.mp3
fariz - sakura.mp3
fariz - sandra ameido.mp3
fariz - selangkah-ke-seberang.mp3
fariz - semusim.mp3
fm - dream girl.mp3
fm - magic.mp3
frozen ghost - better to try.mp3
frozen ghost - pauper in paradise.mp3
frozen ghost - step by step.mp3
gino vannelli - brother to brother.mp3
godbless - cendawan-kuning.mp3
godbless - huma-di-atas-bukit.mp3
godbless - kehidupan.mp3
godbless - menjilat-matahari.mp3
godbless - raksasa.mp3
godbless - selamat-pagi-indonesia.mp3
godbless - semut-hitam.mp3
godbless - setan-tertawa.mp3
iwan fals - aku bukan pilihan.mp3
iwan madjid - id rather be here.mp3
iwan madjid - mengapa ada cinta.mp3
jefferson starship - jane.mp3
k3s - o ya.mp3
lonnie smith - i need your love.mp3
manfred mann - visionary mountain.mp3
prambors - apatis.mp3
prambors - awan-putih.mp3
prambors - dalam cita dan cinta.mp3
prambors - dalam kelembutan pagi.mp3
prambors - kelana.mp3
prambors - kharisma indonesia.mp3
prambors - khayal.mp3
prambors - saat harapan tiba.mp3
prambors - sesaat.mp3
prambors - yang-esa-dan-kuasa.mp3
raidy noor - sapa semesta (2002).mp3
seals and crofts - first love.mp3
seals and crofts - forever like the rose.mp3
seals and crofts - get closer.mp3
seals and crofts - my fair share.mp3
seals and crofts - try your love 1.mp3
seals and crofts - try your love.mp3
seals and crofts - you're the love.mp3
smokey robinson - just to see her.mp3
spargo - head up to the sky.mp3


... more to come ...