How do I move songs from a cassette tape to a CD?

Question

I need to put songs from a tape onto my computer really badly.

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!)
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

You probably have a cassette player.
You also need audio recording software on the computer.

Connect the cassette player's "aux out" connector/s to the computer's "line in" socket.

The connector/s on the player will either be a 3.5mm stereo jack socket or two phono sockets.

You connect the player to the computer by a cable with that/those connections at the cassette player end and a 3.5mm stereo plug, for the computer, at the other.

Answer 3

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