Dear all,
Many many thanks to all those who responded to our message for their
time, ideas and help!
Most of the answers proposed non-automatic methods that have been
followed to organize the whole process of creating wav files from
DAT tapes. They are all helpful.
According to all answers and our own search, there is no way to make
an automatic transfer from DAT deck to a PC, or at least there is no
known software (or routine) to achieve this, if it is technically
feasible at all (probably it is not).
HOWEVER, one of your messages (thanks David!) opened to us a door
that is very promising..., by indicating the following webpage:
http://audiotools.com/dat.html
and letting us know that someone had some success getting separate
"tracks" with the DAT2WAV software.
We didn't have yet the opportunity to check the method (we will
soon), but following our research in the internet it seems that what
we are looking for is feasible! What is needed is not a DAT player
(deck), but a DAT SCSI drive, like the ones used one decade ago to
back-up computer data in DAT tapes! Not all such drives will work,
but some will! If you want to find out more, you should visit the
following two links:
http://web.ncf.ca/aa571/dat2wav.htm
http://www.zianet.com/jgray/dat/index.html
...and then have enough luck to succeed! We hope we will have some
in the coming days when we will make our first trials.
One software that was very useful in doing the transfer was "VDat",
but it is not available anymore.
If anybody can locate it, please let us know!
The alternative is DAT2WAV which is a still available freeware.
I hope this may be useful to people who have the same objective with
us.
Best wishes,
Alexandros
On 1/17/2012 9:38 PM, Alexandros Frantzis wrote:
Dear all,
We have a large number of recordings in DAT tapes, made in years
when there was no possibility of good direct recording by a PC
sound card. We now need to transfer them to a PC as wav files in
order to analyse them.
Our question is:
Is there anyway to transfer digitally the DATE/TIME data (recorded
DATE/TIME data) to the wav file as well, OR at least to another
file (e.g. text file) that could accompany each wav file with its
real (recorded) start and end time?
If the above is not possible to be made
automatically while "re-recording" (I am afraid this is the
case...),
are you aware of any way/software that can facilitate the
whole procedure, especially the start/stop of each new
wav file, naming of each file, entering Date/Time info etc.? (even
if entering the start/end time data should be done mannually)
Our DAT player models are the:
1) Deck: Sony PCM-R700 with Digital Coaxial I/O and Digital AES/
EBU I/O
2) Portable: Sony TCD-D8 with Optical and Digital Coaxial I/O
Thank you very much in advance for any idea/help you may provide.
Best wishes,
Alexandros
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Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute
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