what to do with old music cassette tapes...can they be transferred to cd's?

Answer 1

Yes they can, although they must be transferred in real time - there are a number of websites for having this done for you, or you can do it yourself using the following steps:
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/index.php
(follow the link to ‘Cassette to CD‘)
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 will need the additional 'lame_enc.dll' file to export into MP3 - this can also be downloaded from the free software page.
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 (if you like the online guide, don't forget to 'DIGG' it....)

Answer 2

Yes, with some effort you can use the sound input in your sound card to record what comes from the headphone socket of a tape player. You can then use a program like Cool Edit to cut the recording up into individual tracks. Don't expect the greatest quality.

Answer 3

Great Questions I have so many cassette tapes, I like to know the answer to this myself.

Hopefully, someone can tell us both.

Answer 4

i think so. with the technology these days everything seems possible.