Rip audio from cassette tape to pc?

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Rip audio from cassette tape to pc?

Answer 1

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

No problem. I have a stereo hooked up to my computer so that I can rip from both cassettes and LPs.

I use Soap to burn to CDs and it also has some tonal adjustments available which may be enough for you if you are not looking for the best copy possible.

If you want the best possible, you will need to use a program between the rip and the burn to adjust the tonal quality. It does get quite involved however.

I only do it for albums that have never come out on CDs and have little chance of ever coming out on CDs. If there is a CD available of the album it is just not worth it.