Transfer Cassetes to CD

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I have embarked in a mission to preserve family keepsakes and memorabilia. I have repaired old books, saved old pictures and put them in CD Roms, and taken VHS home movies and transferred them to DVD. The problem that I now have is that I've found a couple of cassete recordings dating back to 1982 but I don't know how to save them. How can I record cassetes in CDs. Do I need to buy expensive equipment? Is there a place where I can have them transferred?

― Thomas Harding, Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Your Mother Never Loved You

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a programme i use called Magix Audio Cleaning Lab (only cost me £25 a couple of years ago) and it came with a lead (not sure what type) but you can plug it into cassette decks and run them through your PC and then record the sound with it and also do a bit of remastering (volume control, taking away hiss e.t.c).

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 5 February 2005 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Tape deck line out into line in on soundcard set this as the record source in the windows mixer and use a program to record the audio (press play on tape deck and record on the record software) then split it into tracks and burn it to audio CD or convert to MP3.

This is the cable you'll probably need

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This software is free and will allow you to record and split the tracks

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Saturday, 5 February 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― anonymous celebrity (anonymous celebrity), Sunday, 6 February 2005 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

alternatively thomas, if you found an early 80s computer (spectrum in particular) amongst all that stuff, just use the lead that connected it to the tape player, this is what i intend to do with my old tapes, eventually, one day...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"killing of a chinese portable"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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