Advice on transferring a recording form a cassette tape to cd?

Question

Does anyone know how I could transfer recordings of conversations recorded onto a cassette tape in the early 80's onto a cd. I live in London so any information would have to please relate to here. Thank you very much

Answer 1

Put simply, you will need to connect your cassette player to your PC soundcard, then play the cassette whilst recording on your PC. A step-by-step guide is available at:
http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/diy
The recording software is the key, there are some free software downloads available at:
http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/downloads.php
I have used ‘Magix Audio Cleaning Lab’ and ‘Audacity’ – Audacity is particularly popular since it is free!
If you record to WAV format, expect file sizes of around 10MB per minute, or 1MB per minute for MP3 (at 128kbps).
Once you have your digital versions of the recording on your PC, simply burn them on to a CD (Nero burning software or similar..). If you use Magix Audio Cleaning, the software will burn an audio CD for you without needing additional software (assuming you have a CD writing drive of course!)
You can also download a free PDF version of the step-by–step guide from the download page mentioned above, the guide is complete with diagrams and screen-shots
Hope this helps...
You could also ask a studio ( http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk ) to do it for you

Answer 2

download this program CDWave

http://www.milosoftware.com/cdwave/

have used this succesfully to record vinyl records onto my computer to make audio cd's

- hookup the tape player to line in or mic in on your computer
- test to make sure not distorted byu setting your record level in windows audio settings
- will record a large wave file on your computer
- will then allow you to split it into smaller pieces - name them
- you can then burn them as audio files onto CD

works great