I've been doing this for a while.  I've used NTI CD Maker and Adaptec
CD-Creator 4 to write the CDs.  The files on your hard drive must be
recorded as 16-bit stereo at 44K frequency and stored as WAV format.
Almost any sound recorder will do this - I used the one that came with
my SoundBlaster.  I'm not sure where you got the 11K max from ...

One big problem I had was stopping the recording phase between each
track and restarting it for the next one because I wanted each track on
the tape to be a separate track on the CD.  It's a pain doing this
manually because of all the rewinding and fast-forwarding and waiting
for the right spot in the inter-track break.  If you don't care about
that, you can record the entire side of the tape into one file and then
record both files onto one CD but then you will only have two tracks on
the CD instead of one for each track.  There is software that will allow
you to break these big files up into separate tracks or you can do it
yourself if you have an editor that will work with files of around
300MB.  If your CD recording software will accept MP3 files as input,
you could use that format since it takes up less disk space, but you do
loose some sound quality.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Farrington <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 1:38 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Voice audio recording on CD-ROM


> I want to take voice audio from cassette tapes and save it to CD-ROMs.
> Maximum frequency is 11k. I know how to connect the cassette player to
the
> computer sound card. I have about 8 hours of tape to convert. I am
trying
> to use the least amount of CD space.
>
> Please give me your suggestions on the most compact sound format that
I can
> use to store and play the audio. Along with the format please suggest
the
> software to use also.

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