How do u transfer cassettes over to cds?

Question

Very treasured cassette tapes need to be put on a cd to help preserve a music memory for my dad.

Answer 1

Hi Limolady
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....)
You can email me via the cassette2cd website or Yahoo if you need further guidance

Answer 2

There is already a good answer to this question, but I would like to add that, if you're planning to record a lot of uncompressed audio, make sure you do it to a faster HDD (not a laptop one) that has plenty of space. Otherwise you risk having the audio skip at some point during the recording.

Also, use good cables with clean contacts, and push as much volume as you can from the tape player (without it clipping) to minimize audio loss. Note that a lot of the fidelity is lost when you convert to MP3, so, depending on the importance of what you're doing, you may wish to back up the raw audio to use as a master.

Answer 3

You need a cassette deck with audio out jacks - 99% of them will have them. Usually red and white.

You need a card on your PC that has audio input jacks. Most computers do not have these. Turtle Beach have a bunch.

They will come with software that will allow you to record the audio. Then just burn it to a CD.

Answer 4

It involves a tape player being hooked up to your LINE IN jack on your Computer, (or if you have the red and white auxillary jacks) hook it up to those jacks.

Second, you're going to need a program that enables you to record from a source of your choice. I find ACID PRO (By Sonic Foundry) the easiest to record with.

Make sure you're recording/playback levels are correct, then let the recording begin. After you get a good record take, you will be able to use and Equalizer to bring out certain aspects of the recording (Difference between high tones, mid tones, and low tones)

Hope this helps...

More questions?? Just email me.

Answer 5

capture the audio from a tape player through an audio capture card.. to your hard drive.. you should have an audio device such as mp3&wave converter.. capture it to my documents or straight to the wave program.. from there convert it mp3 if you want or simply burn the wave file to the cd.. when buying an audio capture card.. the cheaper the better.. you do not want to compress going in.. you just want a simple pass through device that will allow you to capture the audio file as it is played.. so cheaper is better.. when you capture the sound file.. it will be big.. compress it to mp3 and you can put a lot more music on a cd.. hope this helps.. good luck

Answer 6

Buy an imic for about $35.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BVV2IC/ruggedelegance31030-20/ref=nosim?gclid=CIjKmomemZACFQMsFQod53rZ6Q
You need a stereo player with output plugs (preferably two stereo to the earphones or speakers) to get the cassette music to the imic, which then goes into your computer as digital music. Then you can burn to CD.

Answer 7

I would like to know this also, I have over 600 cassettes.