How can i save a recording from my audio cassette to my computer hard drive?

Question

how can i transfer my music from my audio tape casette player to my compter hard drive? will give 10 points with a kiss ;)

Answer 1

Oooh, how do I get the kiss??

Here's my answer:

Put simply, you will need to connect your cassette player to your PC soundcard, then play the cassette whilst recording on your PC. A step-by-step guide is available at:

http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/DIY/index.p...

(follow the link to ‘Cassette to CD‘)

The recording software is the key, there are some free software downloads available at:

http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/downloads.p...

I have used ‘Magix Audio Cleaning Lab’ and ‘Audacity’ – Audacity is particularly popular since it is free!

If you record to WAV format, expect file sizes of around 10MB per minute, or 1MB per minute for MP3 (at 128kbps).

Once you have your digital versions of the recording on your PC, simply burn them on to a CD (Nero burning software or similar..). If you use Magix Audio Cleaning, the software will burn an audio CD for you without needing additional software (assuming you have a CD writing drive of course!)

You will need the additional 'lame_enc.dll' file to export into MP3 - this can also be downloaded from the free software page.

You can also download a free PDF version of the step-by–step guide from the download page mentioned above, the guide is complete with diagrams and screen-shots.

Hope this helps (if you like the online guide, don't forget to 'DIGG' it....)

Answer 2

depends on ya tape recorder... 3.5 to phono is the standard way (electronic shop.. maplin.. radio shack)

then download audacity

plug the thing into the line in on ya pc

load up audacity

enable the "recording" from ya line in...

play a bit, u should get a level..

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I would say , convert the files to mp3 or ogg

using either lamedrop or oggdrop

but u do realise the frequency range on tapes is rubbish compared to cd?