Is it possible to have a cassette put on to a cd???

Question

I have an old cassette that i can't find anywhere. Is it possible to have it put on CD??

Answer 1

Of course.

All you need to do is use a cassette player with an audio out (stereo preferably).

Connect the audio out of the cassette player to the audio in of your computer. Open a program that you can use to record audio (if you have to you can even use 'Windows Media Player - not my first choice) - hit record, hit play on the cassette player...

You'll have successfully ripped the cassette to computer.

From there you simply use the recording program to burn a cd of the the music you ripped.

Tis very cool.

-dh

Answer 2

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.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 and a free PDF guide available from http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/downloads.php )– 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 could 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 3

yes you need to get a cord that goes from the cassette player to the computer, and record it onto the computer. you can get it from radio shack or other stores or online then you need to burn the wav files onto the cd it wont sound as good as a real cd, it takes some time to do it right you should record each song or part of the cassette into a different wav file or the CD will come out as 1 long track

Answer 4

Yes you can. Get a walkman (I know old school.. lol), get a cord to plug it into the line in or mic jack on the back of the computer. You can readily pick one up at Best Buy or Comp USA, maybe Wal-Mart. Tell them you need to plug it into the computer (it iwll look like a 2 sided plug from headphones). Now you have to have a burner and recording software, play each song and save them in mp3 form (if possible). Once all the tracks are recorded, you can then burn them using your burning software and cd-r media. I use a recorder called silent bob and nero, link below. Hope this helps and happy holidays!

Answer 5

I highly recommend a free software program, called Audacity, for recording onto your PC. I use it frequently for recording old records onto my PC. It takes a bit of time to learn, but considering it's free, it's a pretty good value:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

The web page below describes in great detail how to use Audacity to digitize your old cassette:

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/mp3/alpha-geek-how-to-digitize-cassette-tapes-222394.php

Once you have a file in mp3 or .wav file format, you can use your favorite CD burning software (like Nero) to drag and drop your song files into your CD's track list before "burning" the CD.

Answer 6

Yes. You need stereo audio inputs on your computer and a track parsing program.

Answer 7

SURE CAN