How can I convert Audio cassette Contents to CD?

Question

I have a lot of audio cassettes with me. and I have computer with DVD writer. Anybody can help me to convert these to a CD/DVD

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

Using MusicMatch - Connect the to your sound card's line-in terminal with a 1/8" mini-jack and record the contents of your tape as a WAV file. Just set MusicMatch to record the line-in channel, press play on your tape deck, and then press the record button on the MusicMatch Jukebox.

Tips for better recordings - If your tape of a favorite live concert begins with a few minutes of audience murmuring, delete it. If you’ve recorded multiple songs, split your single recording into separate files. That way, you can make each song or section a separate track on an audio CD or on your iPod. Some software can detect silence between songs and divide them for you.

Using Audacity on Mac - Audio I/O: Recording should be set for 2 channels (stereo) and both the playback and recording devices set at Built in audio controller. Audio CDs sample sound 44,100 times per second. The standard sample format (number of digits in the digital representation of each sample) is 16-bit. Audacity’s defaults are a 44 KHz sample rate, but 32-bit sample format.

Using External Audio Capture Device - Consider using an external audio-capture device such as the plug-and-play USB M-Audio Transit instead of your sound card; it will record a much cleaner signal.

Remember to set your audio software’s volume controls according to the loudness of your tape or record. Proper volume is vital to getting good sound. Set the levels too low, and your audio will be too soft and prone to noise. Set levels too high, and loud portions of the recording will sound horribly distorted.

Answer 3

Connect Audio Out of your Tape recorder to Line-IN of your Computer. Now with the help of any Juke Box having facility to record Line-IN music, you can convert your Audio Cassette to Soft copy and later if required to MP3 format.

good luck

Answer 4

Play the cassette on cassette player insert a cable line out were you put the the little speaker in your ear put the other side in the sound card audio in then you need a soft ware to record and set the soft ware to record from line in not from the mic, Real Player record but this will cost money to buy check download.com for free soft ware recorder most of them let you record two or three minutes then ask you to buy.

Answer 5

1) First you must have a cable with 2 stereo connectors.

2)Then plug one connector to the computers sound card's line-in socket or mic(for mono recording)

3)Then you must have a sound recording software to record the sounds.So I recommend 'JetAudio 6' for this perpose.If you don't have that software , you can download it from www.softpedia.com

4) Then open jetAudio and click it's recording tab. You must configure the audio formats(eg:- mp3 etc.). And play the sound from ur cassette which u want to record and click record from jetAudio.

There's no any other way to do this other than recording the sounds from the cassettes.

Answer 6

You can use the input connector on your sound card by using end to end stereo plug(jack) in the back of your computer (it's always blue), connect the other end to your cassette tape head phone outlet to the input, then use JetAudio recorder to record analog sounds then save the files to your hard drive. You'll have to play the tape and record it on your computer at the same time.

Answer 7

You may not like this but you may have to do it the hard way and that way is to simply record the music to your computer using your computer's mic.

I have an Intenet Radio station
http://members.aol.com/Roseb44170L/radio.htm

and some of the more rare music I have had to transfer that way.

I know there's a way where you can hook up your recorder to your computer but I don't know too much about it.

Answer 8

You can connect an amplifier to your computer's sound card and then connect a tape deck to the amplifier and record the tapes to wave files, then burn those wave files to CD.

There are many tutorials available on the Web with more detail. Here is one I found just now:
http://www.blazeaudio.com/howto/lp-overview.html