Consumer Electronics Converting Cassette Tapes To CD?

[Meow]

I've got some very old Records and Cassettes lying around that I want to convert into CD. I've got a Cassette Player, but I'm not sure how to convert them properly.
Any help, links etc.? Would be great!

 

[madhawkboy]

http://www.andybrain.com/archive/convert-cassette-to-cd-digital.htm
Try that. You should have all of the things that is required.

 

[Lewie17]

I miss some of my cassette tapes that were chewed up.

 

[Lewie17]

These days you can download just about anything.

 

[IAMJUNGLEMUFFIN]

The quality would shocking, why not just downlod/buy a CD version?

 

[Poseidon]

I'm sure you could do it easily, but why would you want to?

 

[Pie eyed]

I've got some very old Records and Cassettes lying around that I want to convert into CD. I've got a Cassette Player, but I'm not sure how to convert them properly.
Any help, links etc.? Would be great!

If you Cassette player has an earphone jack, connect that straight the microphone jack on your PC and record it straight to HDD. Pretty ordinary quality, but not much worse than what comes out of a portable cassette player.
You can buy a usb turntable which converts records to mp3 on the fly and stores on HDD or USB key.

Some of my, and more commonly my old mans, old cassettes and records are totally unavailable in any format so converting the old format to new is the only answer.

 

[Spermbird]

I plugged my cassette deck into my amp and from the amp back into the computer.

I use this http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to copy each side and then cut it up into wav files then use itunes to convert to mp3. Takes a bit of time but it works and would work with records as well.

I had to do this to get old demo tapes and vinyl that have never appeared on CD covered to digital. Still have more to go but need more motivation to do more.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Oh the good old days of cassette tapes.My little brother used to pull all the tape out of the cassettes my god he used to cop a beating little shite.

l wouldnt even bother the sound would be shit after all this time.might still sound good with a record though.

 

[Pie eyed]

I plugged my cassette deck into my amp and from the amp back into the computer.

I use this http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to copy each side and then cut it up into wav files then use itunes to convert to mp3. Takes a bit of time but it works and would work with records as well.

I had to do this to get old demo tapes and vinyl that have never appeared on CD covered to digital. Still have more to go but need more motivation to do more.

Acoustica have software which will allow you to chop up the individual tracks, as well as manipulating them, and save the individual files as Mp3 directly without having to resort to Ipod bloatware.

http://www.acoustica.com/mp3-audio-mixer/

http://www.acoustica.com/mp3-wav-converter/

Both are available full and free if you spend some time searching.
I'm surprised iTunes would not turn them all into unusable, off platform, m4a files?

 

[Spermbird]

I'm surprised iTunes would not turn them all into unusable, off platform, m4a files?

Will have a look for that program. I have my Itunes set to MP3 so I have portability unlike m4a

 

[Gibbke]

I'm doing this myself now, as well as going through VHS's. We had a baby, so a few space hogging luxuries have to go...!

Download Audacity, plug a 3mm to twin RCA lead between your cassette and the computer, save the side as a wav file, and then chop them up. I have Adobe Premier Pro and Soundbooth, so importing these tracks, chopping them up, and then enhancing the sound and converting them to mp3's is an easy and fast process with a good result, but you could use any audio or video programme with a real time track display and the ability to export wav files - like Audacity, some are free.

If you decide to do videos too, get Roxio Video Converter...best of the cheaper ones I've used...

If you've got lots of files, an external HD might be necessary...definitely for video, anyway...

And don't listen to any young idiot that says don't bother, even if it's stuff you could get downloaded - that's not the point, is it...!

 

[morri]

There are little gadgets too that look like walkmen that connect to a pc , dunno if they are any good though. I don't care about the quality too much but can't be worse than super compressed mp3s...