Transfer Audio Cassettes to CD?

Skint_Catt

Anyone have any suggestions as to software/hardware that will do this for as cheap as possible please? I know the quality won't be great but my dad would like to transfer some old music cassettes onto CD.
I've looked at Snapmusic Studio 715 in Maplins (£40) and Musicality online (£20) but don't know if either are any good?

Any suggestions gratefully recieved.

C xx

Marty_J

The quality will be awful, and IMHO isn't worth the time and money involved. Unless he has some very rare recordings, he'd be better off looking on eBay for CD copies of whatever he wants transferred.

£40 will buy a lot of used CDs.

kwikbreaks

Plenty of Freeware around to do this. You could even do it with bundled Windows apps.

Here is a specialised freeware app for the task...

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/Free_Cassette_To_CD_Converter_56820_p/

I do agree with the post above unless the material is hard to source though.

Skint_Catt

Thanks- yes I've already suggested that about the music but I think it's more recording of me playing when I was little (chattering away) that he wants to keep

Marty_J

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Thanks- yes I've already suggested that about the music but I think it's more recording of me playing when I was little (chattering away) that he wants to keep

Ah, well that's different then. Unless you were some sort of childhood star, your infant antics are unlikely to be on eBay.

Have a look at this handy guide for recording audio into your computer using the free program Audacity.

kevrod79

My wife did this for a load of her old tapes and records. She used Audacity to do it and then used the lame.dll mp3 convertor plugin to create mp3s (quality not great). Seems to keep her happy although the music, in my opinion, is garbage.

Kev

TonyMMM

I converted a few tapes by playing them on an old Sony Walkman and connecting the headphone socket to the "Line-In" on the PC ....worked suprisingly well

KingL

Just note that if you plug into the 'microphone' socket, you will probably lose one of the stereo channels. I guess this is not a problem in your circumstances...