How can you put a cassette on to a CD?

Question

Like for a example there this great book i have read will listen on to cassette tape. It was realy good. But it would be a lot easier, if I can put all the stuff all on one cd instead of carring 22 cassette tapes around everywhere.

Answer 1

there is 2 ways to do this. one is for those who have a computer. the other is for those who just have a dvd recorder appliance.

many of the new DVD writable appliances allow for recording tv shows through a passthru in which you can record your programming will allow for hooking it up through your pre-outs on your AMP(entertainment center/tape deck) instead of the tv and recording just the analog audio of the input with a black screen. when you play it back, dvd audio is just recorded on it's own track in which you can later with a computer work with the audio only if you later want to split it into tracks or re-burn it onto cds.

the other way is to get a pre-out to the input on your computer and record it to a file. note that there are several programs which do this as it is fairly common thing. some even have the ability to automatically know where to break a track and start the next one (based on long periods of silence where one track stops and the next begins) this software isn't free and I would advise you to look at other options as well. winamp does have recording capabilities (with plugins installed) and is free. also there's the free sound recorder. you will also have to choose an output format. MP3 is lossy and requres that it be recorded initially uncompressed before it can be converted to MP3 which means either wav aiff lame or something along those lines. Because it's uncompressed, you'll need "lots of space" before you begin. expect about 16-21mb disk space per min of audio.

Answer 2

It would take a long time but there is a way.
First you would connect the tape player(by coming out the headphone jack) to the computer(by going in the microphone jack).
Second you use some recording software to record while the tape plays at normal speed.
Once the tape finishes then you would save the file,followed by burning it to a CD.
But before you do any of it you might want to check the copy-write law on that book.

Answer 3

yes you need to get a cord that goes from the cassette player to the computer, and record it onto the computer. you can get it from radio shack or other stores or online then you need to burn the wav files onto the cd it wont sound as good as a real cd, it takes some time to do it right you should record each song or part of the cassette into a different wav file or the CD will come out as 1 long track

Answer 4

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 5

It is not possible to put cassettes on a CDROM. However, you can buy low priced cables/connectors so as to make the analog cassette sounds into the digital format required to be loaded on to CD. You can browse www.ebay.com for getting the estimate of the price in your local currency

Answer 6

Record Music from a Cassette Tape to Your Computer
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/howto/FromCassettetoComputer_StepByStep.aspx

How to connect your computer to your stereo
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/howto-pc-audio.html

Cables Unlimited (computer to stereo or tape deck)
http://cablesunlimited.resultspage.com/search?p=Q&lbc=cablesunlimited&uid=747711211&ts=custom&w=3%2e5mm%20rca&method=and&isort=revprice

Software:
Knocked for a Loop Recorder
http://blog.freedownloadscenter.com/2006/12/11/knocked-for-a-loop-recorder/

Exact Audio Copy
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/

Answer 7

You would need to connect the cassette player to the line in on the sound input on your pc and record it. you could then rip it to mp3 which would reduce the size of the file and then burn it to cd.

Answer 8

Get the Magix Audio Cleanning Lab from http://site.magix.net/english-us/home/music/audio-cleaning-lab-11/ and hook up your cassett player to your microphone input on your sound card and follow the instruction in the software.