How do I transfer music from cassette tape to cd?

Answer 1

use jack (m/f) from tape out put to cd input. Then record cd and play tape same time.

Answer 2

There are many ways to do this. The first thing to consider though is the music that you have on cassette so rare that you couldn't get it on CD or download it? If so then I would do it, if not I would download it. I have no problem downloading something that I already own on cassette or vinyl. It is a time consuming process to transfer cassettes/records to CD as you have to play the entire recording in real time then you'll likely have to do some editing as well.

All that said, you have your line out from your tape deck and you feed that to your audio input on your computer, you'll likely need to go to radio shack and get a converter to go from left/right RCA jacks to the single plug that is on most computers. You can use one of many programs to do the recording. You'll basically be playing your tape deck through your computer and using a program to capture and record what is being played.

You can also find CD-R decks for your stereo.

Some of Creative's new MP3 players and probably some other brands have audio inputs on them too which allow you to record straight to MP3. Then you would just need to transfer the mp3 files to your computer.

Answer 3

You could just take a jack from the output of your tape deck (could even be a walkman) and hook it to the input of your computer, and there are all kinds of programmes that will let you then choose to record that sound, and make whatever sort of file you want from that. Also great because then you can edit the sound, because tapes don't have as good sound as the CD will, especially if it's an old tape. Then just burn those files to a CD. I have Wavelab for the recording, but that costs some money, I know you can also get all kinds of free programmes online if you have a look around on download.com.

Answer 4

You will need a cassette player (!), PC with a stereo input to soundcard, conversion software, CD writer.
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, friends of mine at: http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk for one. There are plenty to choose from out on the web, this type of job is perfect for a 'virtual' studio.
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 and even comes with a stereo cable – try ebay. There are loads more, some even free downloads (audacity avaiable from download.com)– listen to folks who have used the software then have a go….
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.
If it's backup you're after, then MP3s at 128kbps would give good quality, MP3 at 192kbps will apparently give you a recording quality which is virtually indistinguishable from CD (WAV files) - worth considering as you will be able to get a lot of tapes backed up onto a single CDROM.
One last thing, there are copyright issues here - if they are your own (commercial) cassettes it's fine as long as you don't sell off the cassette and keep the digital version. Obviously if the music is you and your mates playing in the garage, then that's fine too!
Hope this helps

Answer 5

I've just bought MAGIX Music Manager from PC World. It cost £29.99 and is brilliant. Once installed ( a few minutes ) you just conect your tape player or record deck to your PC ( Cables are provided ) click the record button on screen and play your tape. It records it onto your pc as a compressed file, you can then modify it by one click solutions ( or alot more in depth ) to resolve problems such as tape 'hiss' and then burn to cd. It's so quick and easy and the end result is fantastic!! It would be money well spent!!

Answer 6

you will have connect your tape to an audion input on your pc and copy it to your hard drive.

make sure when you copy it it is as an mp3 or wma format.

once on your pc just burn to cd as an audio cd.

Answer 7

The easiest way would be to invest in one of these:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/7a8d/