2007-02-17 15:45:36 · 3 answers · asked by d d 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Yes, there are hardware devices you can buy, but this is the 'free' method:
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.
2007-02-18 11:57:43 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can buy hardware/software to play a cassette and feed the output into a computer with a CD writer. (It's expensive)
I have also seen some boomboxes with CD writers. Maybe you can find one with a cassette player and a cd writer, and do the copy on that.
You could also find a shop that does digital transfers, and let them do the copying.
Good Luck
2007-02-18 10:59:14 · answer #2 · answered by fredshelp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get the audacity program, and a cable to connect a tape deck to your sound card then you can record the tapes to computer,and burn them to a cd
2007-02-18 12:30:28 · answer #3 · answered by ferretjoe@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋