Is there an electronic system which I could make CD's from old cassette tapes?

Question

If you know of any such .. What is it called, where can I find one, and the price range?

Answer 1

There's several way to do this:
There's a USB turntable with software (which takes a tape input)
There's a cassette player which you can fit like a floppy drive - (honest, there really is!)
These are both expensive though - details available at:
http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/diy
and:
http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/diy/accessories.htm
The best and cheapest way though is to do it yourself:
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

Answer 2

Well, assuming you have a Windows, if you use a audio program, such as audacity or even WMM, the recorder part, you could record the songs on to it through the mike port, as in, you play the songs on the cassete. The headphone jack has a wire that connects it to the computer in the mic jack. You hit the record button. You record until you want to stop, and then you continue.

Answer 3

I went to radio shack and bought a cable (I think it was called an in line cable) and copied them from the boom box to my computer then made a cd. I did this using music match jukebox.

Answer 4

I have seen boxes that do it for you, but there is a tutorial at lifehacker.