Music cassettes to Cd's ?

Question

A friend of mine has hundreds of music cassette's he would like to transfer onto cd he has only been able to find a gadget that transfers old 45's records is there any device he could buy to transfer the rest of his music?

Answer 1

Hi!

There are 2 ways to convert your cassette to CD.



You can either buy a stand-alone audio CD recorder, from companies such as Sony or Teac. (Search on http://www.ebay.com/ )Connect you tape deck directly to the audio CD recorder, hit ‘Play’, and record directly onto blank CD’s .Some say they offer automatic track detection, which creates a new track on the CD each time it hears an interval of silence; in practice, this technology can be flaky. If you want the CD to recognize each song as a separate track, you’ll usually wind up baby-sitting the entire process and hitting a ‘New Track’ button at the end of each song.



(If you do decide to buy a separate recorder, here's an article on how to use a Teac. turnatable

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/technology/17pogue.html?ex=1313467200&en=c2750ad818bbd966&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)



If you have computer, you can connect your tape deck directly to it. The cable you need has stereo RCA jacks (round red and white) that plug into the tape deck’s stereo output, and a headphone style mini-plug for the audio input jack for your Mac or PC.



Next, equip your computer with some recording software. Free programs abound, like MusicMatch or Audacity .

Download Audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=en

Visit your computer’s sound control panels or the options screen in you recoding software, to make sure that it is ‘listening’ to the correct audio input (and not, for example, it’s microphone jack). Once you’ve set the volume levels, press ‘Play’ on you tape deck and ‘Record’ in the recording software. If you save each song as separate file on your hard drive, you’ll be all set to turn them into traditional tracks on the finished CD. This entails stopping the tape after every song and exporting the file before continuing.



Once a song has safely arrived on your hard drive, you can export it – in AIFF or WAV format, for example – and then import it into a program like iTunes or Windows Media Player for burning to a blank CD.



If you want more step-by-step details on this process , browse through the following links. You may find them useful.



http://www.andybrain.com/archive/convert-cassette-to-cd-digital.htm

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~lion4/articles/diy/cassette.html

http://www.webtechgeek.com/How-to-Burn-Copy-a-Cassette-or-LP-to-CDR.htm

http://www.infopackets.com/channels/en/windows/gazette/2005/20050519_convert_mp3_audio_cd_to_cassette.htm



I hope that helps. Best of luck

Answer 2

If you have a sound card with a line in or mic input you can plug your tape player right into your computer. I have done this with my turntable. I use a creative 24 bit live soundcard and the software that came with it is all I need. I just monitor the "what u hear" in the recording playback window. Take your RCA plug and plug it into a RCA to 1/4" stereo plug and plug the 1/4" end into your soundcard.

Answer 3

you can do it using a computer



you have to have Nero Sound Trax



and some sort of lead and a stereo to connect the computer with



you connect the computer and stereo and start recording on nero



then you save the file and burn it onto cd

Answer 4

you will ought to circulate it on your computing device and then from their you may burn it to a cd. you will get carry of Audacity for loose. (you would be wanting it) you will additionally ought to make a end at an digital keep till you have already got what you like. circulate to this internet site solid success

Answer 5

Why don't he just download everything he has on his cassettes? The quality will be better.