can cassette tapes be uploaded to computer?

is there a way to hook a cassette player up to a cdrw on a computer and burn
cds from the casstte tapes?

 

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Regards,
Ian.

 

there are 3 or more sound related sockets on the back of your
computer.
Speaker, Mic, Line In

Speaker is output.
Mic and Line In are input

Mic is like really bad quality input. Line In is better quality. You
want to use Line In.

You need a cable to speaker socket on your cassette player to the Line
In socket on your computer.
I think it's called a 3.5mm audio cable - male to male (male on both
ends).

An audio program like SNDREC32 (start..run..SNDREC32 <ENTER>) should
be able to pick up the sound. Once it's detected, you can record.
Save it as a .wav

Optionally - you could then use a program called Music Matchmaker to
convert it to an mp3 so it takes up less space. Then a program called
Ace High to decrease the quality so you can make it take up even less
space.

There's probably a shortcut to all of this. I don't do this sort of
thing very often.

 

What kind of cassette palyer do you have? If it's a console type then run a
cable from the line out to the sound card line in jacks. You'll need some
kind of recording program (I use GoldWave, there a lots of others).
Record the tape on the hard drive then you can do what you want with it.

Bearman

 

It will not be as good quality going from analog to digital though, so if
you are plannign to burn to CD the quality will be medicore.

 

WTF are you talking about?

 

What do you think I am talking about? It is kind of self explanatory. The
quality will drop when you put it onto your PC, and it will not be CD
quality. Need any more explanation?

 

Why will the quality drop? I mean, if you have a crappy connection or
a very cheap sound card then I would think so. But otherwise the
quality shouldn't be any worse than listening to it on the tape. So I
wouldn't think he'd have a poor cd if he already likes the songs from
the tape, at least he seems to in order for him to want to copy it to
a computer in the first place.

I could be wrong. My knowledge of analog and digital music begins and
ends with the songs I like to listen to. But I always thought that
digital is supposed to be superior to analog.

 

Considering that the source is analog tape, the relative quality drop in the
transfer will be minor at best if good quipment is used. At any rate, tapes
degrade with time and playback cycles, so anything he does now to get a
permanent copy that will halt that process, will be a net improvement in the
long run. I think he's well aware that the source material isn't up to the
standards of something digitally mastered. It's preservation that is the
likely goal here, and in that vein, there is going to be a level of
acceptable loss. If you copied the tapes to any other non-digital medium,
there would be a more substantial generational loss due to the inherent
shortcomings of analog home audio equipment and the recording media being
used which by itself will impart noise and a loss of quality. At least when
the material is finally stored digitally, there will be no more generational
loss from any subsequent copies made.

 

There, Dan. Take that! <grin>

Bearman