Connecting Hifi To PC??

Arina

Hello All,

Hope some Budding computer Genuises can help me out here!

Basically I was wondering if there was a way i could connect my Hifi to my computer so i can record whats on my audio cassette (in hifi) onto a cd from the computer. I was told by someone briefly that i would need some special sort of wire to do this and i would need to download a certain programme of the internet to burn whatevers coming out of my hifi onto a cd!

Any help and advice would be more than greatly appreciated. :beer:

P.S hope ive posted this in the right board!

jos22

Fairly easy to do. Two cables and a bit of software. I use Audio Cleaning Labs Program (quite old now, new one probably does Video as well, and there may be free progs out there on the web). Cassette is played with a feed via two cables into the PC sound card. The prog lets you clean up, enhance etc the music. It then lets you burn a CD. Will even convert the music to MP3.

Arina

Thankyou so much for the prompt reply!! I am quite useless at theis techie stuff! dont mean to sound thick, but what cable is it i actually need and do you know of any programmes on the top of your head that i could download? Thanks once again! im very greatful.

Arina

Another question....My soundcard has three connections. one is green, one is pink and one is blue. which one would i need to put the wire into? thanks once again!

irnbru_2

The blue one.

Arina

Thankyou sooooo much! very much appreciated! Thanks to you both for advice and help! :beer:

dag_2

Unless there's a quicker way of doing it, there's two steps to the process. First of all, you have to record the output from your hi-fi into a file on your hard disk. The second step is to burn that file onto one or more audio CD's.

To do the first step, you need a sound recorder program. At a pinch, you could use the sound recorder that comes with windows, but you have to jump through a few hoops, because it will only record one minute unless you provide a longer file to write over. You may find other sound recorder programs simpler.

However, this means you must make sure you have enough free hard disk space to record everything you want. As a rough guide, you need around half a gigabyte for each hour of sound.

Try setting the PC line-input recording level as high as it will go without distorting the sound. You may need to try recording, playing back and re-recording a short section a few times over to get this right.

After you've recorded your whole file, an optional second step is to use a normalisation utility. The purpose of this is so that you won't have to keep on turning your CD player volume up to play the CD you've created, and keep on turning it down again to play any other CD's. However, if you took your time to set the PC line-input recording level right before you recorded, then normalisation isn't so important.

Once you've got your sound file on the hard disk, the next step is to burn the file onto a CD. Your CD burner probably came with all the software you need to do this - but if it didn't, I'd recommend "Nero".

There might be ways of recording sound straight to CD in a single step, but I wouldn't recommend this, because it's harder to get the recording levels right before burning. Also, there's more likely to be errors during burning, which means you'd waste several blank CD's before getting a good one. It's much better to do it in two separate steps - record the sound to hard disk first, and then burn to CD afterwards.

Arina

Thankyou so much dag! Its getting clearer now.....finally! :rolleyes:

P.s. Im not going home untill wed/thurs so i wont be able to try it till then! Il let you all know how i get on....fingers crossed!

Arina

dag wrote:

Unless there's a quicker way of doing it, there's two steps to the process. First of all, you have to record the output from your hi-fi into a file on your hard disk. The second step is to burn that file onto one or more audio CD's.

To do the first step, you need a sound recorder program. At a pinch, you could use the sound recorder that comes with windows, but you have to jump through a few hoops, because it will only record one minute unless you provide a longer file to write over. You may find other sound recorder programs simpler.

However, this means you must make sure you have enough free hard disk space to record everything you want. As a rough guide, you need around half a gigabyte for each hour of sound.

Try setting the PC line-input recording level as high as it will go without distorting the sound. You may need to try recording, playing back and re-recording a short section a few times over to get this right.

After you've recorded your whole file, an optional second step is to use a normalisation utility. The purpose of this is so that you won't have to keep on turning your CD player volume up to play the CD you've created, and keep on turning it down again to play any other CD's. However, if you took your time to set the PC line-input recording level right before you recorded, then normalisation isn't so important.

Once you've got your sound file on the hard disk, the next step is to burn the file onto a CD. Your CD burner probably came with all the software you need to do this - but if it didn't, I'd recommend "Nero".

There might be ways of recording sound straight to CD in a single step, but I wouldn't recommend this, because it's harder to get the recording levels right before burning. Also, there's more likely to be errors during burning, which means you'd waste several blank CD's before getting a good one. It's much better to do it in two separate steps - record the sound to hard disk first, and then burn to CD afterwards.

Would i need a wire with a red and white output on one end and a headphone socket type on the other?

irnbru_2

Arina wrote:

Would i need a wire with a red and white output on one end and a headphone socket type on the other?

Yes.

Stereo phono to stereo 3.5mm Jack plug. Like this.

jos22

Try https://www.download.com for program.

Some are free
Some free to try (they expect you to pay after ? days)
Some are free with paid for upgrade.