Re: Prog to convert .WAV to .PRG or .TXT

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:20:18 +0100
Message-Id: <7472D588-ADB3-4A08-ADB7-88B46B3477A9@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2017-11-19, at 00:11, Mike Stein <mhs.stein@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A friend would like to convert some cassette tape .WAV files to binary (PRG) or text files; any recommendations that work well?

This kind of conversion is typically a "SISO pipeline". Which means that in order to get anything relatively close to "well" you need absolutely top notch audio recording, done off a deck that's close to perfectly aligned to a particular tape. Once you have this, there were some tools like:

https://github.com/fabzzap/wav-prg

and

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tapclean/

that can help with that.

Success rate to be expected is rather low though (I assume that the dotWAV files were made using audio transfer). Not because the tools don't work well but for the same reasons, for which copying CBM tape based software using even high quality audio decks had disappointingly low success rate.

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