I have some (many) cassette tapes, Is there anyway to transfer them onto a C.D.?

Question

I have lots of club music thats hard to find and ALL are cassette tapes. If theres a way to copy/transfer them to CD It would be such a relief to know. The thought of looseing them is hard to think about!!!! I wont accept it. So Please Help............Many thanks to all of you...........

Answer 1

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 helps

Answer 2

Many stereos have a cable connection for "Stereo Out". Most PC sound cards have a "Stereo In" connection. Go online to find the right cable. That was the easy part.

Recording that many cassettes will be tedious. You might want to try to find a program that helps with the process. It is more manual than I would like, but you might look at Audacity to record the songs.

Mike Honeycutt

Answer 3

Get a combo CD cassette player and play the tape and record on the CD.

Answer 4

hi,i've got been given the respond. what u can do is to purchase her a CD participant with a convertor ,ihave seen those convertors what they do is which you plug one end to the headphone and the different end of it relatively is a tape a digital tape its so cool.then you play the cd and put in the digital tape directly to the tape participant. and there you bypass.:-)