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I have a lot of my favourite songs on cassettes....and I was wondering if there is a simple way of transfering these songs onto cd

2007-01-29 17:58:11 · 4 answers · asked by Ibrahim I 1 in Consumer Electronics Music & Music Players

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There are devices, but they are pricey, you can do the job with minimal hardware on your own PC though...
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.
If you really want to go down the USB route, there is more info on the accessories page: http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/DIY/accessories.htm
Hope this helps

2007-01-29 23:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1 0

There may be some places you could take it to and have the transfer done, though I'm not sure what you would look up in the phone book... digital sound transfers or something. My parents had some very old home recordings (from vinyl records) transferred to CD, so I know it can be done. Probably be pretty expensive to purchase analog to digital equipment to do this your self.

...And actually, why would you want to transfer from low fidelity cassette to a CD? All the tape hiss and such would come through. Unless they are super rare or unique recordings, why not just go by the CDs?

2007-01-29 18:19:38 · answer #2 · answered by whm 3 · 0 0

t's slightly costly, yet there's a gadget available observed as the PlusDeck 2c. it incredibly is a cassette deck it incredibly is designed to slot in considered one of your pc's 5-a million/4" rigidity bays and enables you to transform your cassettes to MP3 format, which you will then actual burn to CD in WAV or MP3 format. This little gadget will run you over $one hundred (except you are able to p.c.. it up used or off eBay). nevertheless, you may get carry of a cassette participant with a line out jack and run a male-to-male cable between the cassette participant and the line in jack on your pc's sound card and record it that way. Your interior sight RadioShack shop could be able that may assist you with the needful equipment and cables, in case you do not have already got them. sturdy success!

2016-10-16 07:10:23 · answer #3 · answered by pantle 4 · 0 0

I don't know if we are in 30s

2007-01-29 20:08:35 · answer #4 · answered by apomou 2 · 0 0

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