How can I copy a cassette tape onto computer? Is there special software? or is it a service I need to pay for?

Answer 1

You can pay for the service if you like, plenty of web-based folk doing it..
You can buy expensive kit that will do it, or expensive software...or you could just do it yourself for FREEEEE...
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

The easiest way is to get a stereo plug-to-plug headphone cord (i.e. with the metal plug on both ends aka "male-to-male"), plug one end into a cassette player and the other end into your computer's Line-In audio socket. Then you can use a program like Audacity to record the audio from the line input. The signal will be a little lossy and noisy, but hey, audio cassettes are not going to be CD quality no matter what you do.

At the other end of the scale is a "cassette drive", which is a cassette deck you install in your computer.

Answer 3

You could get the software like Pro Tools, Nuendo or any other audio software. But they cost alot and you would still need an interface to get everything connected. You could contact any recording studio and they can probly do it for you. I work at a studio and we've done this kind of service many times. Call around and check their rates, it'll vary from studio to studio.

Answer 4

you cant...there are no software programs that connect a cassette player to a computer, that i'm aware of....

but you could use a free P2P program and download them, limewire.com is usually the recommended P2P.

best of luck...you could also just post the songs name here...maybe someone could send it to you via messanger, like sending a photo, but a song :)

cheers!!!
tarah1980

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Answer 5

What you need is a sound card like Sound Blaster at Best Buy for $50.00 to a $100.00. This has ins and outs and creative recording stereo software you need. This is hard ware. I have it for my PC and use it to put tapes and records on to PC then mp3 Cd's..

http://www.creative.com/products. then sound blaster....they have older less expensive sound blaster cards at the best buy store.