How do I dub cassettes into my computer. What equipment do I need?

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How do I dub cassettes into my computer. What equipment do I need?

Answer 1

http://www.wikihow.com/Copy-Cassettes-to...

This tells you step by step.  

Answer 2

I have wondered that myself.  When you find out, please let me know too.

Answer 3

you better off dubbing the Cassettes to a CD and then to a computer.

Answer 4

A cassette player and a line in cord.  Play the cassette and plug it into your Line-in input and record it using an audio recording program.

Answer 5

1. use mic of the computer to receive the sound from a cassettes.  

a. your computer,

b. a software to record

c. a cassettes recorder

d. a silent environment

2. use a line to connect the earphone outlet of the cassette with the computer mic inlet.

a. + b. + c. + d. the connection cable

Answer 6

You need a special program to do that. You can get a free one or free to try at download.com. I used one (free to try) and don't remember what it was called. It worked great. The end product was better than cd quality because you can remove unwanted noise that is on the cassette. download.com has plenty of them so if you don't like one you can try another. If you find a good one email me from here.

About the microphone jack on your computer, I used mine and it recorded in stereo just fine.

Answer 7

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.