how can I transfer music cassettes to cds using my computer and a cassette player?

Answer 1

just connect your tape player to the sound card input on your pc and use sound recording software to record,it will take ages though.

Answer 2

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 3

You buy the new casette player that fits where a CD player / recorder goes in your PC.
The CHEAP way is to buy a cable with a plug that fits your line-in jack on your computer and a plug that fits the headphone/line-out jack on the casette player. Then use the MIXER functions to set levels.

Answer 4

i connected my cassette deck via the decks headphone socket to the pc's mic socket.then recording on to audacity a freeware sound recorder/editor The results were not good but audacity can clean then up a bit.

Answer 5

in case you needed to list it on your computing gadget your self, you may want to might want to favor to purchase some variety of tape examining gadget and likely purchase some specialist software. i have no idea the position you may want to get a spread of, it isn't my strong ingredient. attempt asking at computing gadget shops or specialist song and recording equipment shops. yet you may want to likely take them good right into a specialist song or recording save and ask in the journey that they could list it onto a CD for you for a fee. it really is honestly accessible.

Answer 6

unless you're talking about DAT tapes, it's not worth it.
you're transferring an analog media to a digital one, the amount of hiss and distortion will render the whole exercise a complete waste of time