How can I transfert old songs from audio cassete to a CD?

Question

I have old songs on audio cassettes that I want to put them on CD. May be transfert on my computer and burn them on CD.
Please help.

Answer 1

You can do it all with free programs:
Hook up the cassette player to the Line In port on your sound card and use Audacity to record it to a file. Next, while still using Audacity just split the file between songs to create tracks and save each track as a new file...I suggest saving as MP3. Next, use a CD burning program (I use CDBurnerXP Pro) to burn the tracks to a CD. Voila!

Answer 2

Hook up your cassette deck to the computer through the line-in or mic input on the computer. A stereo 1/8" plug to 2 RCA plug adapter will be necessary for a standard home cassette deck. You can use a stereo 1/8" plug to 2 RCA jacks adapter and add a patchcord between the computer and tape deck for more length. Use this software to record CD quality wav and split your recording into CD tracks. http://h1.ripway.com/royphil345/CDWAV162.zip Use any audio CD burning program to add your tracks and burn a CD.

Don't forget to select "line-in" or "mic" as the source in the Windows Mixer and adjust the recording level (somewhere near the middle of the slider should be fine).

Saving the tracks as MP3 before burning to audio CD is ridiculous. Compressing the audio and losing quality for no reason... Save the tracks as CD quality wav files. 16 bit 44100 Hz