How to transfer cassette to computer (for MP3 or burn to CD?)?
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The most important thing - you will need a sound card that accepts the input from your cassette deck.\nI have a Soundblaster Audigy card, and it has a pair of RCA jack inputs right in the front of the card - I then have a standalone Denon cassette deck that connects directly in.  Of course that will run you some money.\nYou probably can get an RCA-to-mini adapter if you have a standard sound card just with mini inputs.\n\nAnother option is to buy one of these new direct-to-computer Cassette Players with a USB line out.  You can then connect the cassette player digitally into your computer, and that will save you from buying an expensive sound card... but of course those cassette decks are more expensive than normal ones.\nSoftware is not a big deal, there are tons of different programs out there that will accomplish the same thing - recording the tracks from your cassette input and converting them to mp3 or cd audio.  I personally use SoundForge, Cakewalk Pyro is also good, there are a lot more...
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use a program called LP RECORDER, plug your tape player into the INPUT jack of your soundcard. It works slick
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You can do this in  3 steps.  You might need to experiment to get the audio gain (loudness) right.\n\n1. Connect your cassette recorder's output to mic input of your PC or macintosh.  You might have to buy an adapter that adjusts the "audio gain" to the right level - so signal does not come in too soft or too loud. Since you are sending a slightly amplified signal into that mic jack and mics usually do not put out a lot of power, you don't want to overpower the mic input of your computer.\n\n2. Run a program to capture the audio. Sound Recorder is the name of the one that comes with MS-Windows. If you have a different computer, check your owner's manual.\n\n3. Play the cassette.\n\n4. Save the audio into a file.  If you can save it to MP3 directly, do that.  If you can't, then try saving it to something like WAV or AIFF.\n\n5. If the file is not already in MP3 format now, try getting your MP3 player to load it and try to get it to convert it to MP3.  If you can't get it to do that directly, I can tell you a trick.  Burn it to a blank CD-R, then "rip" (input/encode) it to MP3 audio format. Yes, it wastes a 50 cent CD-R but it should work and is pretty simple to do.  If you do not have a CD burner in your computer, that is a CD drive that reads and writes, then you will have to hunt around the web for a WAV-to-MP3 conversion utility.\n\n6. Now you can just reference the MP3 file from your web page.  An old, MS-IE only way to do that was with the non-standard BGSOUND tag in HTML, or a Netscape-only EMBED tag.  Now it looks like the in way to do it is with the OBJECT tag.\n\n<object data="http://www.YOURSITE.com/YOURFILE.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">\n   You do not have a player for MP3 files defined in your web browser.<br/>\n   Just download this file and then open it:\n   <a href="http://www.YOURSITE.com/YOURFILE.mp3">YOURFILE.mp3</a>\n</object>\n\nYou are going to have to put the correct host name and filename in - YOURSITE and YOURFILE are just placeholders I put in to show you where to do that.\n\nI included some URLs for pages for you to refer to in case I overlooked something.
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Go to Illustrate.com @  www.dbpoweramp.com \nDownload 'dbpoweramp' along with the 'Auxiliary Input' addition.\nThis program will allow you to play a cassette (or LP etc.) through your stereo INTO your computer and record the results onto  your hard drive - convert to mp3, ogg vorbis, etc. or burn to disk.  I am a recording engineer, and this is one of the easiest and best 'user friendly' audo conversion apps out there.  Excellent tutorials with easy to understand 'how to' graphics.  Best of all....it's FREE! FREE FREE FREE...........YIPPEE!!\nHave fun,\nwally space\nLost in Space Studios
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You can use either. I assume you have them saved as MP3s. If they are saved as WMAs or AACs MP4s (Or whatever format iTunes uses) it might be more complicated.\n\nTo move the files, just copy them to the USB Drive, and then copy to the Music folder on your laptop. This method should definately work for MP3 files. If the are WMA's and they were downloaded from a service you had to pay for, they might not play on your laptop. If you downloaded them from iTunes, I believe you can just login to iTunes on the laptop and redownload them. You may need to deauthorize the other computer.\n\nIf you have the origonal CDs, it might be best to just re-rip the songs.
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burn it with nero!\nin nero window u will have options in "burn cd" section and it will look something like this:  burn an mp3 cd and burn an audio cd.\nif u dont have mp3 capable cd player, then go with the second option!
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You will need a cassette player (!), PC with a stereo input to soundcard, conversion software, CD writer. Yep that’s about it, oh yeah and a lot of time…..\nNote: if you are using a laptop, you may need a USB external soundcard (mine has only a mono mic input – not good enough!) – you can get cheap, simple but effective ones (from Hong Kong) via ebay…\nYou could get someone to do it for you, friends of mine at: www.cassette2cd.co.uk for one. There are plenty to choose from out on the web, this type of job is perfect for a 'virtual' studio.\nThe software is probably the thing you really want to know about.. you will find loads out there. Personally I use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab – primarily for lifting vinyl, but will take any analogue signal. It has loads of features including cleaning filters, effects and editing… it’s cheap too and even comes with a stereo cable – try ebay. There are loads more, some even free downloads – listen to folks who have used the software then have a go….\nOh yeah, and Magix has automatic track recognition based on silence between tracks and auto-stop recording so you can go out for the day and it will stop at the end of your tape – really useful!! You will use up loads of hard-drive space, so don’t try this if you are pushed for space…You may need to purge the huge files every so often (10MB per minute WAV files, 1MB per minute MP3). You could save some space recording directly into MP3 at the sacrifice of a little sound quality.\nOne last thing, track recognintion works great for CDs in WAV format (for playing in a standard CD player), I don't think it applies to MP3s though as each MP3 file would need to be separated into individual tracks - This is how Magix software treats it anyhow.\nHope this helps
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OK... this is called Sound Capture. The way it works is this: you connect an audio lead from the headphone jack socket of your MiniDisc player to the Line In jack socket on your computer's sound card.\n\nYou then start up the "Windows Sound Recorder" program. Find it by going to All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder\n\nNow, as a test, start playing a track on your MiniDisc player - the sound should come out of your PC's speakers - make sure your sound is turned on with the volume up.\n\nNow go back to the beginning of the MiniDisc track you want to capture. Click the round red Record button in Windows Sound Recorder, then within a few seconds press Play on your MiniDisc - the capture should begin... and when the MiniDisc track ends and fades out, click the Stop button in Windows Sound Recorder.\n\nNow click File > Save As in Windows Sound Recorder, and save the file as a WAV wherever you like.\n\nThis is the general way of capturing sound. It isn't a transfer of the original digital file, so there may be a small drop in quality, but it will still be good.\n\nPlease post again if you need more detail.\n\nDC :)
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Master them as Mp3 or Wmv... put them on a CD and mail them.\nIf they don't have a PC, master them as a CD.  Most CD burning software will do that for you.
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plug the player into a USB port, then use windows explorer to drag and drop files from your C: drive onto the mp3 drive (it should show up as a removable disc in explorer)...
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You can integrate your tape recorder right into the "line in" input on your computer and "capture" the analog audio (from your tape player) onto your hard drive and then subsequently burn the audio files to CD. You'll need some recording software on your computer to do this. There are many software applications available and some are free. I use DART - CD RECORDER.\nHope this helps.
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Simple!!\nIf u r using Windows XP! open Windows media player! u'll find an opetion to Rip ur CD Into MP3 Form.
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If you are talking about from a CD to MP3 format, you can use Windows Media Player 10, I have found that to be effective.  You'll have to go into the options and under Rip, you'll want to set the default format to MP3 otherwise it'll rip them into WMA files that can only be read by Windows Media Player and not most MP3 players.\n\nOnce you have those options set, you put in your CD, then go to the Rip tab and if you have an internet connection, the songs will all be labeled appropriately and you just click the little button that says "RIP".\n\nThe default location for the ripped MP3's is My Documents, My Music, and it creates a file folder titled by the album and artist.
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plugin the speakers output from a tape player into line in of a computer. use tools like musicmatch jukebox to record them to mp3s, u can make audio cd from those files.
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You're going to need a tape player that has a line-out jack. From there, you can plug it into the line-in jack of your computer, and use a WAV editor to save the audio tape contents to an audio file. (Play the tape as the WAV editor is recording.)\n\nFrom there, you can take the audio file and burn it to a disc using Windows Media Player or any other number of media players.\n\n(Although, for all that trouble - it might just be better to buy the compact disc. If the tape is worn, that will reflect in the audio recording on the disc, unless you go through great length to remaster it.)
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plug a wire from the headphone jack of the cassette palyer to the computer's micropohne jack. open up windows microphone recorder thing. play hte casssette and click on record on the computer at the same time. this sohuld record the audio to the computer. after this, import it into windows media player or something and burn it to a Audio CD
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Use Real Player to play the Cd, add it to your library, and specify in the options you want it saved as an MP3 file. Then copy the relevant file from your library folder.