Is there a way to convert music from cassettes into digital music?

Question

I have over 400 cassettes and would love to have some of the music on them on my ipod....is there any equipment that i can buy that can do this and how much would it cost? thank you for your time...:)

Answer 1

It depends on the OS. Are you Windows or Mac?

The process is generally the same. You use the line out on a tape player to connect to the line in on your computer. then you use recording software such as WireTap Pro to record the files into the computer as MP3 files. There is no fast way to do this. You should play each song separately and save it individually. so, you have many hours ahead of you. If your time is valuable, look in the iTunes store and get the albums directly.

;-D If you have a huge HD, you can record the tape into Audacity all at once and save each song separately.

Answer 2

Yes and no - you can do it, but it's not terribly convenient, and it's going to take you a long time.

You'll need a tape player with a "Line Out" jack, which looks just like a headphone jack. The difference is that it doesn't change volume when you adjust it on the player, like the headphones would. If you can't find one with Line Out, a headphone jack will do, but the quality is not as good.

Then you just need a piece of software which will capture the audio for you. I have used Musicmatch Jukebox for this purpose, and it worked just fine . . . there is other software out there too for the same purpose. You will have to play the tapes at normal speed so that the software can rip it to MP3 and save it to your hard drive. Each tape would have to be played individually. This is the really time-consuming part of the project, and not many people try it. If these tapes contain multiple songs/pieces/whatever, Musicmatch has a function where, whenever there's silence on the tape for a few seconds, it starts a new MP3, and I'm sure other software has a similar function.

Good luck!

Answer 3

you need a software like audiograbber and the right cables to plug your cassette player in to your sound card

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

this is only an example, there's lots of different software out there