how do you convert audio cassette tapes to MP3 format?

Question

Specifically its a radio interview someone I know did and wants to email/send a cd to other people.

P.s. Limewire is great

Answer 1

with special equipment. connect the cassettte player to your computer or a digital recorder, then convert it to mp3 format

Answer 2

I'm sure there must be a 'slick' way of doing this. The only way I can think of would be via a digital voice recorder. You would need one that accepts an external stereo mic input (to connect to your tape player's headphone socket), and saves files in MP3 format, or a format that can be converted to MP3 by Windows Media Player. These recorders are available from about £25 to £150 (try Currys Digital, and then buy it cheaper on Amazon), and, of course, they have other uses once you have ripped your audio cassettes. Just make sure you get one with the features I mentioned.

Answer 3

You need a computer(with an up to date sound card), a radio that has RCA connection in the amplifier, and last but not least, computer software that can record. eg. WaveLab, or Sound Forge.

You then need to play the tape in the radio, while recording onto the computer. Then save the file as an Mp3, because it will record in wav.

Hope this helps.
BrothermanB

Answer 4

It depends on your computer sound card, just install any software that has digital audio player / recording (e.g Jet Audio by Cowon) and a really good cassette player with a line out / output, then plug in the cable connection between the line out on cassette player into audio plug in on computer, and open Jet Audio, its automatically refer to line in recording, follow next process and play the tape.

Answer 5

You need to connect your cassette deck/music centre to your pc from the audio outputs to the line in/microphone jack. Most likely you will need a Y-cable or a splitter.

If you want professional reproduction use a programme like NCH Golden Records - http://www.nch.com.au/golden/index.html

Or you can try a free audio editor -
Audacity - http://www.filehippo.com/download_audacity/
Audacity will export to both WAV and MP3 and you can apply various effects to improve the quality of your original recording.

Neosound FX - http://www.neosoundfx.com/
Kristal Audio - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/
AudioBlast - http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/audioblast/audioblast.html

Of course, if quality isn't your aim you could just run the cassette tape, hold a microphone to it and record using windows sound recorder (Start>All Programs>Accessories>Entertainment>Sound Recorder). This will save it to WAV then convert to mp3 using Windows Media Player 10 or use freeware like Free MP3 WMA converter
- http://free-mp3-wma-converter.en.softonic.com/ie/44879

Answer 6

Go to your local computer store and ask them what leads and software that you would need to connect your cassette player up to your PC to transfer to MP3 format and how much will it cost. or the easiest way would be to download the tracks from limewire plus it would be cheaper the link is http://limewire.com select limewire basic as it is free.

Answer 7

if you computer has an audio input, connect the tape player to it and get a software "audio editor"...theres lots of free ones on the net ("audacity" for mac). with that you record the input of the tape player, which records usually as .wav or .aiff, then convert to mp3 using a program like itunes

phewwww.

ps. if you dont have an audio input on your computer, get an "audio interface" theres ones as cheap as $30, and they come with software.

Answer 8

There are many audio converters / rippers on the market. My favourite is Total Audio Converter cause it supports all main formats and it's very light. Link here http://j.mp/1rgDjDF
You should definitly try it
Cheers.

Answer 9

you dont. it would sound crappy. if their tapes of your band take them to a professional, if its your old john denver album, download limewire and get the song for free. hit me up if you need help

i never tried but maybe if you splice together two male ends of head phones and plug it into your comps mic port and record then convert that to mp3

thats kinda tweeker mcguyver isnt it. just record it with a mic then google free mp3 converter and do it that way

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