6 Ways to Transfer Cassette Tape to Computer. Edit Article Preparing to RecordUsing AudacityUsing QuickTimeUsing Sound RecorderUsing A Professional AppFinishing Your Recorded Audio (Mastering) Edited by Xia Huang, Jack Herrick, Jonathan Thorne, Waited and 39 others Audio cassettes opened up a world of portability unimaginable in the days when LPs ruled the roost. Music on the go! Ad Steps Method 1 of 6: Preparing to Record 1Gather your materials. 8Determine what software you will use. Method 2 of 6: Using Audacity 1Use Audacity. Method 3 of 6: Using QuickTime 1Use QuickTime.
Method 4 of 6: Using Sound Recorder 1Take advantage of Sound Recorder. 3Click Start Recording. Method 5 of 6: Using A Professional App 1Use a professional app. Method 6 of 6: Finishing Your Recorded Audio (Mastering) Record and copy vinyl to cd and mp3. How To Convert Vinyl Records (singles and LPs) to Audio CDs and MP3 files [Or you can commission me to do it for you] The Full Story This site covers the whole story on how to convert your music from vinyl to audio CD or mp3 and also includes freeware downloads. Copy ing your vinyl singles and LPs to make music audio CDs and MP3 files is easy enough.
But what if you have a problem and its not working? What you need a pc with a sound card and a cd writer. The Software Suite (click to download). 1. 2. 3. Step By Step 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. NOTE - you CAN'T record straight from vinyl to CD, you must save your music tracks as files first, then copy to CD. A Bit More Detail On Recording Set 44100Hz, 128 bandwith, record in stereo in the options settings on your chosen recording software. I like to save my music as mp3, because it reduces file sizes from about 30Mb to about 3Mb, with virtually imperceptible loss of quality. How to Deal With Live LPs Short of any Kit? Don't Forget to Backup.
Recording to hard disk from audio tape [Archive] Originally posted by astro Assuming you have audio outputs from your PC chose the line level output (not speaker level if you have both line level and speaker level outputs). Plug a cable with a 1/8 inch stereo mini-plug at one end and two RCA phono (L+R) jacks at the other (about $5-$7 at Radio Shack). If the cable is too short (they come in 3 and 6 foot lengths) to reach from your tape deck to your PC get a 1/8 inch - 20 foot male to female stereo headphone extension cord )Radio Shack about $7) and extend the mini-lug to pnono jack cable if necessary.
So you will plug the 1/8 inch stereo mini-plug into your line level audio out jack on the PC and the L+R phono plugs into the input side jacks on the back of your tape deck or receiver depending on how you have it hooked up. After you've now made the connection you simply make a few test recordings while adjusting the PC audio intput levels and the tape deck output levels for the cleanest signal and record away. Lets try that again. How to transfer a tape to a CD using Audacity. NOTE: I originally wrote this article as a reference, after I transferred a cassette tape to a CD using the ahead Nero Wave Editor software. At the time, I was using version 1.0 of the Wave Editor on Windows 98.
However, the software I used is now pretty dated, so the new instructions below are for using the free Audacity sound editor on Windows XP. Audacity is also available for older Windows operating systems (back to Windows 98), Mac OS-X, and Linux. If you want to read the original article, I've archived it at You can also find some excellent instructions about converting tapes to CD at cdrfaq.org (this is what I used as my starting point). Essentially, the process is to hook a cassette tape player up to the sound card on your PC, record the songs/music on the tape to one or more WAV files on the computer, and then transfer the WAV files to a CD. Step 3: Record a song Before you begin, make sure you have enough disk space!
1. 3. Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or minidiscs to CD. This set of tutorials provides instructions on how to record audio material from a variety of sources and then deploy it to CD, your computer or portable music player. You can use Audacity and your computer to record sound from any external device which outputs an audio signal.
Although cassette tapes and records (LPs) are the most popular examples, Audacity can be used just as easily to record audio from the following: Making vinyl to digital transfers is a skill and the more you do the more expert you will become. Consider starting out with some LPs or singles that you care less about and only ever played infrequently. This way you will not need to go back and repeat important earlier transcriptions that you made. This tutorial assumes that you have read and understood the Your First Recording tutorial, and have figured out how to get sound into your computer and into Audacity. The following tutorial in the Audacity Wiki is likely to be of use when transferring cassette tapes.
How to connect your computer audio output to your stereo audio input. Computer (PC/Mac) to Home Stereo Connections: Connect your Computer to your Receiver or home Theater system, cassette deck or turntable. It's really not so hard! People were connecting their computers to their larger general Audio/Video systems long before Netflix and Hulu and all the other online content came streaming into your home over broadband Internet connections. Nowadays there is so much "content" out there to be had it is hard to believe you should have to pay for any of it! But size still matters. Why watch something on that little laptop when I have this big TV?! And once you get the video on the big screen you have to supersize the audio as well. Computer to Receiver or home theater system The "In's and Out's":Home audio amplifiers are pretty standardized as far as input and output levels.
Normal stereo amplifiers and receivers have two analog RCA jack connectors for input for each device. "Power" Amplifiers are another story. How to Wire it: Computer OUT to stereo IN.