Okay, time for me to confess to a facepalm moment; since I started this thread, I've taken another stab at compiling sephail's software. It turns out the reason I couldn't get it to go before had to do with the dependancy, libsnd-dev. I had tried to install it onto my Ubuntu box from command line. It turns out that Ubuntu has a package available called libsndfile1-dev, and once I found that through a package manager gui, dab.c and dmsb.c both compiled just fine. I can't report any successful reads just yet, but that may have to do with what I'm using for a read head. I've tried scavving a head out of one of those MP3 through a cassette deck adapters, but since it's intended to be a write head, my confidence in the idea isn't huge. Said confidence has also dwindled in the failure to read a damn thing from it, even trying with audacity to just record the info and process it through the software after the fact.
reading with the mp3 to tape adapter works fine although you get better results if you take the capacitors out.
I can get consistent reads but you need to set the sensitivity(using the max levels function). I NEED A WRITER NOW!!!
Could someone please help me design this. Ill post pics later.
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reading with the mp3 to tape adapter works fine although you get better results if you take the capacitors out.
I can get consistent reads but you need to set the sensitivity(using the max levels function). I NEED A WRITER NOW!!!
Could someone please help me design this. Ill post pics later.