Is it possible to "record" a cassette tape to the hard drive?

Question

I have a cassette tape that I need to be a CD. The cassette can't be purchased as a CD, I've exhausted all those routes.

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.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 helps

Answer 2

If there's a headphone socket on your cassette participant then this is undemanding. you will want a cable with a stereo jack plug (3.5mm) at each and every end. you will additionally want a recording programme, i take advantage of audiograbber that's a loose acquire. Then plug the cable into the headphone socket on the tape, and the line in socket at the back of your computing device. start up Audograbber and under report elect line in sampling. start up off with the tape volume extremely low and alter till at last the recording stages are ok purely to objective. Then purely checklist to your computing device. in case you opt to transform to MP3 you will choose an encoder, the educational for downloading this are in Audiograbber. desire this helps

Answer 3

It is possible and easy. All you need is a cable that has audio pin at both ends. One of the pin goes into the "line in" jack on your computer and the other pin goes in the "audio out" of the player. Then of course you need a software capable of capturing audio - audio recorder SW. That should do the trick.