can't get cassettes to pc through instant music?

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean by instant music, but here is my answer to transfering cassettes to PC.....
Difficult to write all the steps down here, but you can have a look at the following for some guidance (currently under development...) http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/DIY/how_to.htm This is certainly 'do-able', if you have the patience....
You will need a cassette player (!), PC with a stereo input to soundcard, conversion software and 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, 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 produced 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

Answer 2

i think of you may get the final thought from the countless solutions that have been published. yet right this is an entire answer: First, you should get the music on your laptop. you choose for first to make the hyperlink between your cassette participant to the laptop utilising a cable (stereo or mono, counting on your recording) out of your participant's output socket to the 'Line-enter' of your laptop's sound card or line-inpout (continually blue in shade). then you definately ought to 'seize' the music. to try this value effectively, you are able to, as stated, use Window's sound recorder. you will discover this software below the 'entertainment' team. Open this technique and initiate recording, and press play on your participant. you may ought to play with the recording tiers until you get an undistorted recording. extra suitable nevertheless, in case you may get a stable recording/enhancing software inclusive of Cool Edit. as quickly as you have seize the music (one by utilising one is ultimate), you choose for a CD burning software in case you're utilising something in the past XP (e.g. win95, win2000). some CD burning software might have come inclusive of your CD participant in case you retro-outfitted it, so verify first. With this form of software, you only choose the music you choose for to burn on on your disc, and away you circulate. wish that enables.