How do you transfer a cassette tape onto a cd ?

Answer 1

Difficult to write all the steps down here, but you can have a look at the following for some guidance: http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/diy/how_to.... 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. Hope this helps...

Answer 2

Hello antbebee,
What I did a couple years ago is hooked up a boom box to a old computer and copied some cassettes this way. It worked, of course in the process of finding out how to do this I blue one boom box. Do not even try on a computer you care about, might hurt something...
Otherwise I am sure there is a store or something that can do it for you?
Some cassettes are in vinyl record form (then there are those that were only released in cassette form), easier to transfer over with the help of the new record player being sold that hooks right up to the computer...
Remember by law you can not sell the CD's you made, however you can legally pay for each song. The license are for one year and you can sell up to 1200 (I think it is, would have to look over some licenses I have) copies....
Good luck and if you are going to try what I did, remember not a computer or boom box you care about.....
Good luck!

Answer 3

I remember seeing such a device being sold on eBay sometime back.
But if you are computer literate and not afraid of a little hardware, you can do it yourself.
Basically what you need is a tape player with an audio out port. Then you need an audio cord (RCA connector on both sides) to connect to audio in of a computer, and preferably a buffer to protect both audio ports. You will also need a music software (freewares are available on net. Search for the term "Audio Recording Software" in Google.)
Now you must have understood what to do.
Play the tape on player with the audio out connected to PC audio in. The software will record in a suitable format (mostly .wav format). Then you can use CD writing software (like Ahead Nero) to write the CD as audio CD.