Casette tape transfer to CD?

[Tyme2fish]

The new truck I bought has a CD player and no casette player. I've got a gazillion casettes and only 12 CD's. Is there a simple machine or way to transfer my casettes to burn a CD?

 

[ndemge]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

Probably easiest way is to record onto your compute and then burn to cd. Tape player out to computer in.

I'm not sure what program is best for simple sound recording, but I used to use Goldwave years ago....many years ago.

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

A friend told me about Audacity which I downloaded. I'm so stupid I don't know which "hole" to plug the cord into from my casette player.
One hole is a picture of headphones (got that figured) another shows a microphone and a 3rd is kinda like this
((.)) Oops, when I typed I got an emoticon. Left side parenthesis twice dot in the middle right side parenthesis twice. Do I plug into the 3rd hole?

 

[vipzach]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

That third hole is the "speaker out" probly green colored. The mic, is an input and if any of them would work to connect the tape deck..........it would be that one.

 

[i386]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

Here's a couple more options if you like gadgets...

PlusDeck 2c

InstantMusic Vinyl & Cassette Ripper

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

Here's a couple more options if you like gadgets...

PlusDeck 2c

InstantMusic Vinyl & Cassette Ripper

Thanks, That InstantMusic Vinyl & Cassette Ripper looks like just what I need. Thanks again.

 

[Drrockter]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

Make sure you have plenty of space on your hard drive. Figure about 1MB per minute of music. They will be in .wav file format which takes up some space.

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

Make sure you have plenty of space on your hard drive. Figure about 1MB per minute of music. They will be in .wav file format which takes up some space.

Thanks, I'm just going to copy to CD then delete the files.

 

[i386]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

Yes, the wav files will be big, but once you compress them as mp3 files they'll be much much smaller. You can delete the wav files after that if the software doesn't do it for you. CDs can get scratched pretty easily so it's nice to have a copy on your computer. Besides, you may decide at some point to put them in an mp3 player.

 

[Drrockter]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

That's true. You finished what I should have. Wasn't sure if the MP3 conversion was going to be of much interest though.

My wife copied a bunch of stuff and didn't realize how much room it took up, I had to do a bit of clean up. LOL.

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

My son has mentioned MP3 to me.Hey, I'm old. I've still got a working 8 track player in the basement!!!
And lots of LPs and 45s. Any bids on some Beach Boys albums??

 

[Drrockter]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

Sorry, got Helix crankin right now. 8)

 

[whywhyzed]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

gimme an R!

 

[Drrockter]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

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[Tyme2fish]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

I did it!!! I hooked up a cord from my earphone outlet on the receiver to the Microphone input on my PC and recorded using the program "Audacity." I then burned the disc and it worked!!!

 

[Drrockter]

Re: Casette tape transfer to CD?

Nice. Good to hear.