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Topic: Record Cassette Tape over to a CD |
Bill Maynard
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Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 5 Nov 2005 2:51 pm |
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I am looking to acquire what is needed to take music off of cassette tapes and put them on to a CD. Can anyone tell what equipment is needed to handle this?
Thanks....
Bill |
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Tim Lane
From:
Garfield, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 5 Nov 2005 3:03 pm
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You need a tape player with a line out, or you can use headphone jack. Connect to your line in jack on your computer. You will need some kind of recording software, or you can just use Windows Sound recorder(hit Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/Sound recorder)
Once set, hit play on your tape player and record on the Sound Recorder. You can record the whole tape at once, but I prefer to record each song seperately so I can break them into seperate tracks. Once thats done, you need CD Burning software (like Windows Media Player, Musicmatch, Nero, etc.)
I think that's it. You may have to go to Radio Shack to get the cable that has the small stereo plugs on each end. Hope this helps.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 5 Nov 2005 3:50 pm
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This has been asked and replied to many times in the Computer Section. Do a search in that section.
Also, this link probably will give you most of what you want to know. It's my Interfacing Audio to PC document.
http://the-predator.tripod.com/dell/sec7-9.html
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 5 Nov 2005 7:33 pm
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| Wow Jack,great link..great detailed instructions..thanks.P J |
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Bill Maynard
From:
Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 3:39 am
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I want to thank you very much for the tip.
Truly appreciate it fellow steelers...
Bill |
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George Kimery
From:
Limestone, TN, USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 3:44 am
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| I think I did it the simple way. I just bought a CD (Dual deck) recorder at Best Buy. It has RCA jacks in the back for plugging in a cassette deck or record turntable. Not being all that computer savy, this was the simplest, best thing for me. |
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Shaan Shirazi
From:
Austin, TX, USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2005 7:41 am
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I just spent the whole weekend doing this. I wanted to record my tapes to MP3 format instead of wave files so I used an OLD Real Jukebox program (version 1 I think) because the record from mic/line in feature is free. In later versions it was only available on the deluxe pay version. The max quality for MP3's is only 96Khz which isn't great but seems to get the job done. Here's the link to download the old Real Jukebox.
http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?src=012904info_features_1_0_0_0_0_0
It's also a great way to record only parts of songs to practice like intros and solos.
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 7 Nov 2005 9:13 am
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There are many programs and some free that will do better than that old program.
Audacity is one free program that will do that.
The most often used MP3 compression for "near full fideltity" is 128 bps. But, if you want full fidelity record them as wav files (you can always convert them to MP3 if you need MP3's but you can't convert MP3's to wav and regain the full fidelity - it will only be as good as the MP3 file).
I haven't looked at the "Real jukebox" but if it's a RealPlayer/RealOne product I don't want anything to do with it. As we have discussed in the Computer section and as it's been discussed on other computer forums, RealPlayer is on the list of "ill behaving" computer programs and even some versions install spyware. |
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Shaan Shirazi
From:
Austin, TX, USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2005 10:15 am
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Thanks for the audacity tip I never really researched other programs and that looks to be much better.
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2005 12:32 pm
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I have one of these. Pricey, but it works great. I've even been doing live recording of rehearsals with it.
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