I have several very important cassette tapes that I want to preserve but I don't know of a program or way to accomplish this without going to a studio. I wonder if there is a studio program perhaps that I can download onto my computer that I can use to download cassette tapes.
2007-01-10 06:14:42 · 3 answers · asked by Jay 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
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.p...
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, you could 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.
The only extra harware you will need is a connecting lead (RCA to small stereo jack), see the online guide for more info on this..
Hope this helps
2007-01-10 23:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is converter which is sold which allows you to connect your cassette player to the PC and transfer / record the songs. Try any computer store and ask them for advice.
Otherwise you can choose to record the songs directly from the cassette to the PC. For that you need to connect the headphones jack of your cassette player to the line-in jack on your PC and then record the songs using a decent software, like audacity for example. Then just export to MP3 or whatever suits you best.
2007-01-10 14:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by O'Neill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get Audacity (it's free). You can then record the tapes and split them into tracks if you want. Just plug your cassette player's line out jack into your sound card's line in jack and tell Audacity to record from there.
2007-01-10 14:20:37 · answer #3 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋