can I record my audio cassettes onto disc?

Question

I have some old tapes from good times gone by, and I want to know if there's a way I can transfer them to disc or even music file. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you have a stereo tape player and a cd recorder and player also hooked up to your stereo, you can.

It's like recording an album onto tape. It's the same procedure. You record the tape onto CD.

Answer 2

You can get an audio recording program for free on http://www.download.com Then you can get a connection wire that has earphone connection jack on each side. You can get those at Wal-mart for about $5. Plug one end into the headphone of the cassette player and plug the other side to the microphone of the computer. you record the cassette directly to your hard drive. It's extremely time consuming but cheaper.

Answer 3

Yes you can!
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 4

yeah, i know a way, i think it'd be cheaper in the end to just buy cds, you can buy a cassete drive for your pc, like a cd rom, they aren't cheap though and take so much patience, by the time i had mine and worked with it i gave up, it's just a major pain, it is legal to download music if you own the original, and judging from your question you do, go to download.com, download and install limewire, configure it, and download completely legally what you have on tape and simply make cd's. good luck.

Answer 5

Yes, you just need the correct connections and leads, same way as you can record video tape to disk.

Answer 6

I downloaded Audacity application. it is free. you could hook up the stereo output to the computer and record the song. there is yet another little bit of application that you'll locate by ability of the Audacity website to remodel your recordings to MP3s. it is quite elementary.

Answer 7

The way i did it was a sound card by sound blaster at best buy for $50.00 $100.00 it has ins and outs the best quality sound that you will get your tapes to sound even better. 24 bit

http://www.creative.com/products/ .sound blaster audity value

Answer 8

Using a free program, wavepad, you can record them onto your computer, save, and then burn onto cd.

Answer 9

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