Audio cassette to MP3??

itsbeef

Hi guys......

Just wondered if anyone knows the best way to transfer audio tapes onto an Ipod shuffle?

Cheers :beer:

wonka

You will need:
1) a cassette player with a stereo output socket
2) a PC with sound card
3) a cable with the correct connectors between PC and tape player (phono jack??)
4) Software that can capture the audio from your sound card, and will allow you to edit the tracks, and save into separate MP3 files.

I did this a few years ago with my vinyl albums. I think I used a Nero utility at the time, but I think now that there's free software around that will be useful (audacity).

jasmin10

I did this a few months ago but admittedly it wasn't music only a voice that lasted 5 minutes. I put the tape into my stero and plugged in a double end cable that fitted into the headphones bit on the cassette player and then plugged the other end into the microphone bit on my PC speakers. I then pressed record on the voice recorder programme that most PC's have and the pressed play on the tape deck. I then converted the file to a .mp3 file using a converter software thing I also got of a freeware website.

It did the trick but does have a limit on how long you can record for. Once you have done and tried this though there are lots freeware out there you could download and try recording the same way.

I'm no expert but it did the job and I now have my grt grannie on a cd.

Sam

mentat_2

My father wants to do exactly the same thing and I've done this in the past, so I would recommend AudioGrabber for the actual recording of the files.

IanT_3

As Wonka said in a previous post, Audacity should be good for this. It's a fairly basic audio editing program but is a good application and fantastic for being free.

Ian.

David_B_2

Audio tape to MP3 just does'nt seem right. Audio tapes are not the best quality, won't you lose some quality during the transfer? Won't you be better either get the CD version and making MP3's or downloading a MP3 from somebody you has taken it off a CD?

Not sure this helps?

sra

Another vote for Audacity here.

If you're willing to pay, Magix Audio Cleaning Lab is well worth the money. I have the 2004 version and you can get the older versions cheap on Amazon
But make sure you get the Dexlux version. The standard only lets you burn a limited number of MP3s without paying more

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David_B wrote:

Audio tape to MP3 just does'nt seem right. Audio tapes are not the best quality, won't you lose some quality during the transfer?

You don't lose quality in the recording process - your just capturing the quality of the cassette. The main quality loss in this process is converting to MP3. If you have a cassette recorded with dolby you should use a cassette deck with Dolby to reduce hiss.