I have many music concerts that I have taped onto VHS over the years. 
Is it possible to record the VHS to MP3 and then be able to burn the
MP3's onto a disc?  Or is there a company that will do that for me?

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 13 Jan 2006 18:17 PST

karib...

If you have the usual setup as most people, you can plug
the VHS audio out into your sound cards line in, start
a session of the Windows Sound Recorder, start the VHS
tape, and record a .wav format file. Then use a freeware
program to convert your wav file to .mp3 file format.

For that matter, Windows Sound Recorder allows you to
convert wav files to mp3 format.

Let me know where this takes you, and if you need any
additional information to consider this a satisfactory
answer.

sublime1-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 13 Jan 2006 18:21 PST

Oh - one tiny caution is that you need to have sufficient
hard drive space for the initial wav file. A half-hour
album would be around 236MB worth of wav file.

Sublime...

Are you sure you can use lowly old sound recorder to make MP3 files? 
I thought you needed a codec for that?  Even the Digital Media Edition
of Microsoft Plus! has you purchase a seperate MP3 codec for burning!

If this is true ALOT of us are wasting money!

Here is a link to DME MP that will assist taking the hiss out of those
old VHS tapes...but, with this at least, you will need to purchase the
MP3 Codec to go along with it...I have provided a link to that too...

Plus! Analog Recorder

Bring your aging vinyl records and cassette tapes into the digital
age. With Plus! Analog Recorder, you can transform all your old tracks
into clean, vibrant digital music files. Use special cleanup filters
to reduce the hissing and popping sounds caused by old media and
recording devices.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/dme/Music.asp
https://onlinekey.ltg.info/shop/productinfo.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9Series/GettingStarted//Personalization/Plugins.asp#MP3Create

Good Luck...

You have definately been very helpful...thank you.  I will let you
know what happens.

canadianhelper...

You asked:

"Are you sure you can use lowly old sound recorder to make MP3 files? 
 I thought you needed a codec for that?  Even the Digital Media Edition
 of Microsoft Plus! has you purchase a seperate MP3 codec for burning!

 If this is true ALOT of us are wasting money!"

Yeah, I was surprised too, but when I answer a question
like this, I walk through some of the steps. So if you
open up Sound Recorder and then open a file with it,
you can click on Properties and Convert, and one of the
options I saw was Mpeg Layer 3. I went ahead and did
the conversion and it saved the wav file as an mp3.

Now - it may be that option was only available to me
because I've acquired the codec from some other piece
of conversion software, and Sound Recorder just presents
options based on installed codecs, but all the codecs
I have came from freeware, so it still didn't cost me
anything.

sublime1-ga

Weird!  I checked it out more thoroughly and yep...there is a codec in
there...limited to 56kps but it's there.

Also...just so the question writer has this info...WM10 has MP3 codecs
for burning built in.

Good Job Sublime...