2007-01-15 07:30:22 · 2 answers · asked by xwdguy 6 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
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.
You can set either of the programs mentioned above to automatically separate tracks for you.
Hope this helps
2007-01-19 10:06:03 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cheap way (meaning free) is to connect the cassette player to your PC via the sound card. Once the connection is working, download a copy of Audacity and let it record the music as the songs play on the cassette player. Once you've recorded the entire cassette, use Audacity to break the music in to individual tracks.
It will not give you the best sound quality but it is good enough for most people.
Mike Honeycutt
2007-01-15 19:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by mahoneycuttnc2002 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋