old music

ANyone know an easy way to transfer old music cassette tapes to cd? I would hate to have to buy all that music again. beside some of the stuff I listen to has never been produced on cd.

Your soundcard has an input port? Get a connector with miniphono jacks on both ends. Plug one end into your tape players headphone output, and another into the audio input to your soundcard. Play and record.

Don't blame me if something burns out though. It didn't burn for me, but it might unless you isolate it someway.

my suggestion will take a bit of effort and tweaking

get a dubbing wire, one that has the male ends on both sides..

plug one end into the tape player (preferably one with stereo) and one into the mic hole of your PC.

record the song onto your hard drive.

get a program that converts to wave or mp3

store the new conversion.

assuming you have a cdr, record it back onto a cd as a normal music disc.

i am sure there must be a better solution, but i have used this one myself.

the wire?? you can obtain one at radio shack.

hope this helps

I use a usb device called Tascam US-428. Its basically a mixing board that converts analogue sound into digital music for use with a computer. Thats only the first half though. The program I use to re-mix, clean up and save the sound files is Adobe Audition(formerly Cool edit pro). Not a very cost effective way to go but well worth it. I can upload from tape in stereo, remove hiss and pops, adjust pitch, tempo, add tracks, just about anything. I'm sure theres a simpler waythough. You also need the right sound card, any Audigy card should do.

http://www.tascam.com/product_info.php?pid=270&nav=computer_interfaces

You can always buy a cassette player 'drive' for your PC.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/mp3/6908/

Thanks for the ideas guys.

Leperous said:
You can always buy a cassette player 'drive' for your PC.

OMG old school! :dorky:

Use LAME as your MP3 encoder, if you're planning to make MP3s of the stuff.