2006-10-21 20:23:20 · 1 answers · asked by Sha R K 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
You will need a cassette player (!), PC with a stereo input to soundcard, conversion software, CD writer. Yep that’s about it, oh yeah and a lot of time…..
Note: if you are using a laptop, you may need a USB external soundcard (mine has only a mono mic input – not good enough!) – you can get cheap, simple but effective ones (from Hong Kong) via ebay…
You could get someone to do it for you: www.cassette2cd.co.uk for one, but may cost a bit if you really want hundreds done (bulk rates will no doubt apply)
The software is probably the thing you really want to know about.. you will find loads out there. Personally I use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab – primarily for lifting vinyl, but will take any analogue signal. It has loads of features including cleaning filters, effects and editing… it’s cheap too – try ebay. There are loads more, some even free downloads – listen to folks who have used the software then have a go….
I recommend highlighting the tracks you want from your tapes rather than doing everything. Oh yeah, and Magix has automatic track recognition based on silence between tracks and auto-stop recording so you can go out for the day and it will stop at the end of your tape – really useful!! You will use up loads of hard-drive space, so don’t try this if you are pushed for space…You may need to purge the huge files every so often (10MB per minute WAV files, 1MB per minute MP3). You could save some space recording directly into MP3 at the sacrifice of a little sound quality.
Hope this was the sort of answer you were after
2006-10-24 08:36:05 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋