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Post by TRO Admin on Oct 30, 2009 23:49:30 GMT -7
@vincent LOL yes I think I would probably have to visit my grandparents in order to find a device to play the tape but it would be cool to see what was on it. I would imagine it's a collection of songs of some sort I have heard before, which is enough to keep me from opening it. If I don't find a second copy eventually, I'm afraid, curiosity will get the best of me.
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Post by Fen on Oct 31, 2009 10:49:25 GMT -7
ooooo it would be cool if someone could rip the songs to MP3 *hint hint*
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Oct 31, 2009 11:21:44 GMT -7
They do make devices that'll transfer cassette tapes to CDs, which can then be ripped as MP3s. If not, they can be ripped as WAV files, which can then be converted into MP3s.
It is possible to listen to one of Teddy's tapes in a regular cassette player, but you have to adjust the speakers so that you don't get the static caused by the animation data.
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Post by TRO Admin on Oct 31, 2009 18:29:51 GMT -7
I must stress that ripping to Mp3 is great for personal use or if not shared with the public at large, but it's the official position of this website not to offer or promote pirated works. I wish they would just release them so we could buy 'em, already! Josh
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2009 23:39:05 GMT -7
In the last year I bought the "The World of Teddy Ruxpin" cassettes, the tapes that play in standard tape players and contain strictly music from the book and tape sets. I managed to pipe one of the tapes into my computer. I used a CD/Cassette deck with a headphone jack to pipe the sound through my computer's microphone jack. Unfortunately, this yielded a mono channel of sound (still not sure why, unless the microphone jack on my computer is a mono jack), so the sound on the right channel is barely heard. Still, using QuickTime Pro (which costs $30 to upgrade from the standard free download) I recorded the sound and saved the segments as MP3, which I was then able to transfer to my iPod. It's a long way around, really, but ultimately it was worth it. I will have to go back sometime and retry this to get the proper sound balance, but as an experiment, I was very satisfied.
I would also like to state that I did not seek to profit from these clips. These were for my own personal use, and I have remained solely in my possession. If anyone wants to try it, I would highly recommend it, however, I agree with Josh on this point, that if you really appreciate something, you should be willing to pay the proper respects to both the material and it's creators.
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Post by TRO Admin on Nov 1, 2009 0:48:29 GMT -7
I only wish an entrepreneur out there would find Teddy and the endless possibilities he offers and bring these things to the marketplace. In the meantime we must do what we have to do to keep up with technology, it just isn't practical to keep cassette tapes around these days. However, I just wanted to discourage any public trading of these things to the public at large, not because I worry about any member of our little group doing such, but more as a reminder to others who may read this forum who have already been warned about piracy and copyright issues (You all know who I'm talkin bout now, right? Josh
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Post by Legendbournageddon on Nov 8, 2009 7:21:17 GMT -7
Personally, if I had a cool million, I would design and create a 'movie-version' Teddy Ruxpin costume and probably knock on Ken's door just to see his face. Might inspire him...
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Post by TRO Admin on Nov 8, 2009 11:16:08 GMT -7
It wouldn't be the first time somebody dressed as Teddy knocked on his door. LOL.
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Post by Legendbournageddon on Nov 10, 2009 8:15:37 GMT -7
oh, how did Ken react that time?
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