Digitizing Cassette as one file but showing tunes separately?

[mikehende]

Hey guys, how you all doing? Bud of mine has a bunch of cassette tapes with seprates tunes on them. He wants to have his cassette tapes digitized with sides A and B each digitized 'as one file' each but showing the tunes individually in OTSAV DJ, is this possible, if yes, how please?

[milky]

The only way is to create the master copy as a WAV file and then use something like Goldwave to edit the master and cut it into separate tracks. You can then use Ots Studio to import the individual tracks and edit the names. If you want them in the same sequence as the original tape, make sure to add "01, 02, 03...etc" to the start of the track name so that Studio imports them the same way. Then you can strip the leading number off the name in Studio.

I do this with vinyl and it works very well, but, of course it has to be done in real-time so it can take hours to record, edit into separate files and then name each track.

[socialdancer]

That would be my preferred way to do this.

In theory you could import the complete side A file into Studio, then clone the item several times to create separate tracks.  Unlink the ACI chunk on each cloned copy and adjust the in and out points to play just the wanted track, then edit the title etc.

[mikehende]

The only way is to create the master copy as a WAV file and then use something like Goldwave to edit the master and cut it into separate tracks. You can then use Ots Studio to import the individual tracks and edit the names.

Thanks both you guys. Sorry only now seeing these posts, did not get the Notif.

What I am thinking is since he wants each side of the tapes 'as one file' then is there a way to have say Side A as one file in OTSAV then be able to expand that one file showing and playing if needed any of it's individual tracks? I am thinking that is what he is seeking.

[socialdancer]

Absolutely!  It's what Ots albums are all about.  Just like ripping a CD and importing all the tracks into an Ots file.
The principle is the same but it will require a bit more manual intervention as the cassette is purely analogue without any tags to hold title details etc and has to be recorded in real time.
Record as MP3s, or WAV files for better quality, then use Studio to import each set into an Ots file and edit information as usual.

[milky]

Thanks both you guys. Sorry only now seeing these posts, did not get the Notif.

What I am thinking is since he wants each side of the tapes 'as one file' then is there a way to have say Side A as one file in OTSAV then be able to expand that one file showing and playing if needed any of it's individual tracks? I am thinking that is what he is seeking.

If you import one file into Ots, you get ONE track, with all of the individual tape tracks stored consecutively in it. Similarly, if you record one side of a record album, you will have ONE single file containing all of the tracks. However, because there are no embedded tags, Ots has no way of knowing the names nor lengths of the individual tracks.

This is why you will have to open the recorded file in Goldwave, Audition etc where the waveform will look like a string of sausages (because of the quiet gap between tracks). You then cut each "sausage" and paste to a separate file, and then import the "sausage" files into Ots. If you name each of the individual files the same as the track name (together with a number at the start so Ots sorts them correctly), they will then appear in Studio with names and in the sequence they were on the tape. You can edit each name and drop the sequence number from the name if you wish.

I also "normalise" each track in Goldwave before saving, so that they are all at the same playing level.