Reclaim Media
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Reclaim Media takes your old LPs and cassettes and turns them into CDs and/or MP3s. And, they do it cheaply and safely. $14.95 to turn a cassette into both an audio CD and an MP3 file (they split tracks).
Wow, what a great and useful service.
To me $14.95 does not sound that cheap if you consider the size of most people’s LP and cassette collection :-)
If you have some time to change the LP or cassette every once in a while you can easily do it yourself. There’s quite a bit of software that makes it easy to split the audio in tracks. I guess most work will be actually to give those tracks names, and set the Album title, author, etc.
David: I’ve done it, many times. This sounds better to me. I may do it with my slides which also sounds better than scanning and adjusting 1000 of them by hand.
any good service for scanning pictures that you would recomand I was thinking of buying a scanner and scanning them my self. Acutaly any good recomandation for a good scanner or a medium price scanner (not the best but not something were all of the pictures will come out blurry)
thank
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Edward, Instead of scanning, I use my 24-70mm f/2.8 lens on my 5D, camera on a tripod such that I can shoot straight down. Picture on floor, and I do it with camera. I think my results are pretty good although not as good as a scanner. Frankly, the results are good enough for me.
This picture was done that way: Ben and Sadie’s wedding as were all of the images in the category “old family photos” at this site.
great, thanks for the advice If I did nto have to scan the picture it would be good there are a lot of them.
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Edward, it doesn’t cost anything to try. Use your 50mm lens at f/4 to f/8. Hold it still or put on a tripod.
Oh I will as soon as I have the picture (they are in France) I will start shooting away.
thanks so much for the advice
e
PS I am sure it will be a lot less time consuming, then scanning
Edward: First try it, if it works, you’re set. If not, you can always buy a scanner.
Through Reclaim Media I found HD Media Services and they do video to DVD. Not too expensive either, $9 for a VHS to DVD conversion.