Tape to digital conversion
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Does anyone know of hardware that can take a audio cassette and convert it to digital format (put it on computer). I can't seem to find any. Please post some links/suggestions.
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Does anyone know of hardware that can take a audio cassette and convert it to digital format (put it on computer). I can't seem to find any. Please post some links/suggestions.
My dad rigged up a tape deck and hooked the speakers up to the LINE-IN of his sound card. He then turned them into MP3s. I think he may of gotten a Y-cable from Radio Shack. He used MusicMatch to do most of this. I think that the MusicMatch site describes some of this. He did some tapes, but he mainly wanted to do vinyl records.
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Does anyone know of hardware that can take a audio cassette and convert it to digital format (put it on computer). I can't seem to find any. Please post some links/suggestions.
Can't you connect the output of your tape deck to one of the inputs of your soundcard and record the sound that way? It has worked for me when I wanted to save some old tapes from their final doom. I think that you should have something better than the Windows Sound Recorder to work, though... You will need to clean up the resulting sound file as the tape will surely have some noise that could be removed.
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Does anyone know of hardware that can take a audio cassette and convert it to digital format (put it on computer). I can't seem to find any. Please post some links/suggestions.
i've converted many tapes by just hooking the line outs from my tape deck into the line-in on the sound card. as the other poster said, you'll need a phono to 1/8" stereo connector (like $3 probably at radio shack). as far as recording software, i use Cakewalk 8, but that's extreme overkill for the job (you don't need a full-blown midi-sequencer and 32-track recorder for this). there are probably dozens of shareware sound recorders out there. -c
Chris Losinger
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My dad rigged up a tape deck and hooked the speakers up to the LINE-IN of his sound card. He then turned them into MP3s. I think he may of gotten a Y-cable from Radio Shack. He used MusicMatch to do most of this. I think that the MusicMatch site describes some of this. He did some tapes, but he mainly wanted to do vinyl records.
Jonathan Austin wrote: My dad rigged up a tape deck and hooked the speakers up to the LINE-IN of his sound card. Mine did too, to burn old polka albums to CDs for my grand father.