I need a program to transfer some music from cassette tape to my hard drive,preferably a free download,I just want to save these old analog demo tapes.
2007-01-16 11:04:31 · 5 answers · asked by tileboy17 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
You need AUDACITY - free download, see below:
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, 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 answers your question
2007-01-17 02:06:22 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm experimenting with the same thing. I'm going to try running a straight cable from the headphone output of the cassette player to the microphone input of the laptop and using the basic record sound program in the accessories package. Will route through a DVCR if there's an impedence matching problem, and just keep trying different configurations 'til I get something rigged up that works.
2007-01-16 11:17:05 · answer #2 · answered by rumplesnitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've done this with a splitter from the stereo RCA output jacks of a component tape deck to the stereo mic. jack on the PC. Burned the results to CD. There was some minor noise on the CD, but no worse than when listening to the original tape.
2007-01-16 11:51:48 · answer #3 · answered by trk_drvr_otr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your computer should have an "Audio In" jack, normally located near the audio out jack. You would connect the tape player to this and you will need an Audio Capturing program to capture and save it. Check with your local software selling store to see what they have to offer. There are several on the market.
2016-05-23 22:16:23 · answer #4 · answered by Michelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soud Blaster - sound card from best buy 50 to 100 bucks.
2007-01-16 13:55:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋