I’ve found that I can sometimes “trick” dual-cassette tape players into this. And even at half speed, you’re still talking over 500 hours of effort.Īlso know that your playback device would have to support high-speed playback. If it’s high-quality music recordings, though, then this may not be a good option. You didn’t say what was on these tapes: if it’s just voice conversations, interviews, or lower-quality stuff, then you’re probably okay. The drawback is that high-speed dubbing hurts your quality.
The benefit is that you’d drastically cut your recording time. This would allow you to record at high speeds. Then, (b) after recording, you do some simple post-production – you’d slow down the recording (to say half as fast). You could follow my same instructions above, but (a) when recording, you can set the tape playback speed to something faster (say twice as fast as normal). That’s a huge commitment and a lot of labor.Ģ) Convert the tapes yourself, at high speeds: See these tape conversion options for more detail:ġ) Convert the tapes yourself, at normal speeds:įollowing my conversion instructions, you could indeed do this yourself, but even assuming an optimistic 45 minutes to convert and process a 30-minute tape, that would take you 1125 hours. I assume you’re asking about high speed because you don’t want to wait so long for the conversion! That’s understandable, but there are reasons why I don’t recommend high-speed conversion. Okay, so you have a ton of tapes, and you want to convert them at high speed. How can I covert them to perhaps a MP3 file at high speed rather than real time?
I have over 1500 (Yes, 1500) 30-minute audio tapes that I want to save and make sortable.