Is there a way of transferring mini cassette audio tape to any thing to preserve and listen to them?

Question

my father passed away and i found a bunch of these mini cassettes

Answer 1

As long as you have something to playthem on, this should work (BTW windows sound recorder is useless for this type of job...)

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

it really depends on the player you have. If you have an output, (preferably a line out, but if not, a headphone out will work) you can connect this to the line in of your computer and record them onto the computer. You will need a lead to connect them and then you should be be able to use sound recorder in windows.

If you don't have a player there are firms that will do it for you, for a price. Best to phone them and have a tape in front of you so you can answer their questions. Search for audio transfer services.

Hope this helps.