Cassette to CD

AGB863

I'm looking for hardware / software so that I can convert my old cherished cassettes that I have and put them onto cd. Most of the tiltles I have were deleted in the 70's and are not available on CD.

Any ideas of where I can start?

Thanks in advance :beer:

wonderfullife_2

Hi
If you already have either Nero or Roxio these will do it.

Hope this helps

albertross_2

You will need a CD Writer, a soundcard, a jack plug to stereo phono (possibly, depends on what outputs you have on the cassette deck) lead, and some recording software. This is Intel's favourite recording software..

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

tigermatt

If you've got an old amplifier and tape player (separate though) you could take the output on the auxiliary and put it into the line in port of your computer.

Most decent audio recording software can record from line in, so you just set it recording from line in, play cassette and hopefully it all records correctly. Once on your PC you can then record it to cd.

tigermatt

wonderfullife wrote:

Hi
If you already have either Nero or Roxio these will do it.

Hope this helps

Yes but you need to get the audio from the cassette first before you can record it to CD.

AGB863

albertross wrote:

You will need a CD Writer, a soundcard, a jack plug to stereo phono (possibly, depends on what outputs you have on the cassette deck) lead, and some recording software. This is Intel's favourite recording software..

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I have used this software in the past it's ok

AGB863

Is it as simple as head phone out put on a deck to the input on my sound card and then using the editing software?

wonderfullife_2

tigermatt wrote:

Yes but you need to get the audio from the cassette first before you can record it to CD.

Yep your right, sorry

albertross_2

Yes, (or use line-out phono's) but make sure you use the line-in on the sound card, and not microphone input, and you'll need to adjust the volume out of the cassette desk , too low and you'll get background hiss, too high, and you will get clipping..

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Don't use headphone out, unless you have no other option, use a line out. Headphone out is likely to produce much worse results because the signal is amplified to drive headphones.

cmallaby

What i do when converting cassettes to CD. Is.

If you have a dictaphone/hifi link a wire from the 'phones' out, and link it to your computers 'mic' in.

Go to volume control and see that microphone isn't muted, then when you play your tape you should hear it.

Then, in volume control go to Options, Properties, Recording, tick Microphone if not already done and set mic and recording points mid way and make sure Recording has "Mute all" unticked.

Now record with a WAV recorder, like sound recorder? Although i use Windows Movie Maker as this automatically compresses it so it isn't a huge file. And set your tape going.

You are ensured an interuption free, Tape to MP3 transfer, once thats done just burn them to CD!

Hope this helps!