Not only are the hardware connections more complicated, but you have to record in real time-start the tape playing and record it as it plays. Regrettably, turning a tape-based audiobook into something you can listen to on your computer or mobile device is far more laborious than ripping an audio CD. The audio quality of a cassette tape is far worse than that of a CD, but you don’t need pristine quality for an audiobook. Given the vast number of books-on-tape sets sold in the last years of the 20th century, this is an excellent question.
Macworld forum visitor Suenaga reacts to a recent entry regarding ripping audiobook CDs for playback on an iOS device with a question:Īny advice on doing the same with audio cassettes? I have dozens of books on tape I’d like to move over to my old MacBook.
