At one time cassette tapes were the norm for recording things. For almost 6 years, I recorded tons and tons of freestyles and mixes from a local college radio station. And I would like to put them in MP3 format to save them on CD-R. Anyone have any knowledge of going about this? Or know what software I can use to do this? I do have Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 and 6 that I may be able to do this with. What do you guys think?

Kurlee Daddee
(THE ORIGINAL)

 

Get rid of Roxio and get Nero. But as far as I know, you have you connect your tape player to your computer through some RCA type connections. But how exactly to do that, is beyond me. My dad keeps asking me how he can get his records on CDs.

 

You might have a mini-pin audio input on your machine. Just go to radio shack and get an RCA->mini-pin cable and hook your tape player to your comp.

 

Blu,

Here is your solution, saw it at the apple store yesterday while christmas shopping, and have gotten it as a gift for my dad as well:

http://www.griffintechnology.com/pro...able/index.php

 

uhm...

it's fairly easy, BUT you need plenty of HDD space, and you need a good connection from your tape player to your PC's sound card, since what you are doing is ANALOG capture to wave format, before converting to mp3.

You already have most of the software available on your PC (windows sound recorder). Connect the cassette player to the MIC input on the sound card. The sound card uses a mini-stereo input. Your cassette player will either have the earphone connection, or you can use the RCA line-out with a mini-stereo plug to RCA adapter (radio shack, 3-5 bucks). Pull up windows sound recorder on the pc, start record, then play the tape. After playback, save the file. Now, it will have lots of noise and the sound level may be off, so you will need to download some filters to remove the pops/noise, and normalize the sound level. Any freeware mp3 authoring application and wave editor will do this for you. Then convert to mp3 or burn directly from wave to cd audio format for play in your cd player using Roxio, Nero, or whatever. Look here for apps: http://freeware.intrastar.net/sound.htm

 

from the stanford radio station?

KZSU... they use to have cool mixes during sundays back in the late 80s and 90s...

i won tons of free 12" records from them...

btw, if you have the full version of roxios, they have a small app that cleans up analog recordings.

just feed a high quality cassette deck to your computer LINE IN and go from there...

 

No comment.

I found out that you can use the headphone jack from the tape player to the in port on your sound card. So I need to find a stereo mini to stereo mini jack. And Roxio Easy CD Creator has Spin Doctor that you can use.

I have used Nero and hated it. For me, Easy CD Creator is much easier.

Thanks guys,

Kurlee Daddee
(THE ORIGINAL)

 

Hey Karl....if you need help doing this let me know....I have a studio quality high end digital audio card in my computer for recording my mix sets from 12"....and I use SoundForge 6 for the recording sessions....then I run my mixes through an audio restoration program that removes all the excess noise from the recordings.....

-Ted

 

what is a cassette tape?

 

dude... if it were from KSZU old skool days... lemme borrow some of those...

i missed the good ol days...

 

omg, loook at the ad , lol thats funny stuff

well, it was an advertisement for tape to cd