How can I transfer music from a cassette tape to a PC?

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.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!) or convert to MP3 (need additional 'dll' file to do this in Audacity)
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

I think you can get the general idea from the various answers that have been posted. But here's a complete answer: First, you need to get the music to your PC. You need first to make the link between your cassette player to the PC using a cable (stereo or mono, depending on your recording) from your player's output socket to the 'Line-input' of your PC's sound card or line-inpout (always blue in colour). Then you need to 'capture' the music. To do this cheaply, you can, as suggested, use Window's sound recorder. You can find this program under the 'Entertainment' group. Open the program and start recording, and press play on your player. You may need to play with the recording levels until you get an undistorted recording. Better still, if you can get a good recording/editing program such as Cool Edit. Once you have capture the music (one by one is best), you need a CD burning program if you are using anything before XP (e.g. win95, win2000). Some CD burning program may have come with your CD player if you retro-fitted it, so check first. With such a program, you just select the music you want to burn on to your disc, and away you go. Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Well : according to " Transfering Music " you must have an
Cd -Writer/DvD -Rom Combo with 48x32x16x48maxSpeed installed in plus "Expansion Bay Hard Drive" because windows xp
95 -98 access only then use "Itunes " ok?

Answer 4

u have to get An RCA to Mini jack Connection connect the rca to Ur cassette player and the minijack to ur line-in input on ur computer then set ur sound recording input to line-in (u can do this from ur sound icon in tray menu) then u have to get a recording software (the best one is Sony sound forge i use it ) just open sound forge press record the play ur casette after ur done press stop and u can see a wave form this is ur recording u can save it in any format u want ex mp3 , wav , wma ..etc

Answer 5

i have one it has the 1/8th male end for the PC and there is 2 RC pluges for R/L plug into out on casett line on PC about 20$ now

Answer 6

Hey,
I found a free download of Nero here http://bit.ly/VMdOzQ

Nero supports burning audio, video and data to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

Bye Bye

Answer 7

one way would be to hook up the output from you tape player to the line in, or the microphone jack of your pc and use recording software to record that to an mp3