High Speed Audio Cassette to MP3 Conversion?

tottydoc asks: "I have a few thousand cassette tape recorded lectures (monoaural) that I wanted to convert to MP3. Are there any high speed dubbing decks to use in combination with some software to do this quickly?" Might there be some quality concerns when recording audio to disk and then slowing it down to the intended speed?

Elbow-grease ware.

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a specialised device for performing such tasks - an undergraduate.

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the biggest problem with this would be matching the speed at which the tape player was going to the speed at which mp3 play back would occur. Also remember you're going from analog to digital there. What you would be doing is taking an analog recording and then essentially slowing it down. I'm assuming your asking because you also remember those old tape decks that could copy tapes really fast. Those worked by having to motors going at the same speed, so you still got the same recording on the same amount of tape. Here's 2 suggestions:

1. Hire a neighbor kid to sit at your computer while you're at work and do this, tell him you'll give him $40 and buy him a pizza if he'll change tapes and watch TV all day.

2. Use Musicmatch JukeBox.

There simplying isn't a good wat todo this without losing a lot of quality. Sorry =( but hey if you do come up with a way todo it, let us know!

Cassette decks for PCs? Good Lord..

[Wakko Warner]

...buy a Commodore VIC-20?

- A.P.