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Physical Media Is Dead, Long Live Physical Media (hackaday.com)
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

1st thing i would do would be call the radio station–they might have a digital copy already

It hasn't existed since 2003 (there's still a station on that frequency, but it's changed ownership and programming a couple of times). Maybe they still have the old master copies anyway? Or I suppose I could try to track down the DJs who produced it...

The library and state archives ideas are good suggestions; I'll look into them.

last resort would be a recording studio, which might cost lots of money per hour, and it’ll have to be converted in real time–play the tape from start to finish, while the computer ‘records’ it. if the studio don’t have a top of the line gourmet tape deck, then they can take just take the output of your own player and plug it into protools

I mean, if using my own player might be considered "good enough," couldn't I just hook my Walkman's headphone output to the line in or mic input on my computer and do it myself? In addition to the audio built into the motherboard, I also have a relatively-cheap USB audio interface, which I guess isn't as good as it could be (it's 48KHz, not 192KHz) but would still be better than nothing.

The main thing is I'm not sure how I need to set the volume on the Walkman (it also apparently has a feature called "AVLS" that might or might not be relevant) or if I need an amplifier or something. I also don't know if I need to do anything special with ALSA/JACK/PulseAudio and know basically nothing about how to use Ardour or XMMS (I'm aware they exist and are the right type of software, but that's about it).