transferring cassettes to CD's

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beladona

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Hi everyone!
I'm a new registrant and this might just be the place to find the info I need, I hope.
I have looked hi & lo on the www to find out how to transfer my recorded cassettes onto CDs. There are lots of company's out there who will do it for you but I do not want to send my cassettes to a stranger. I want to learn to do it myself. Can anyone help please and thanks in advance.
 
Do you have a computer with a CD burner, soundcard and a Tape Deck with stereo outputs?
 
What kind of soundcard are you running? I don't think Soundblaster type cards have the A/D converter necessary for this. Your burner software (Nero, Iomega, ect.) should be sufficiant.
Check your card whilst I look at some software.
 
wow, the replies came back quick!

....a CD burner will be installed soon, & DH says the tape deck has stereo outputs.....and how do I find out what type of soundcards we have?

Can you all tell I'm a newbie at this?
 
I don't think this isn't gonna help, but....

Right click My Computer, Properties, Device Manager, Sound-Video-Game Controllers. There you'll see your card in the line-up.
Thing is...you probably have an SB, and again, I don't know if they'll convert the analog signal to a wav file.
Fear not, someone here knows.

Good luck.
 
OK, here's the soundcard info

ESS Solo-1 SoundBlaster Compatible (WDM)


" " PCI Audio Drive "


Things are looking better already.
 
This question has been asked many times in this forum. Some of these questions referred to recording vinyl to CD - but the process is exactly the same. Do a search and you should get lots if information.

Essentially what you need to do is connect your cassette player up to your soundcard and record the cassettes to .wav files. Then burn the .wav files to CD.

Here is a quick overview: I assume you have a home stereo system with a cassette deck. The receiver should have some type of "line out" or "aux out" connections on it. Connect the cassette deck to the receiver, and then connect the "line out" connections on your receiver to your sound card.

The line out connections on the reciever will most likely be two RCA phone plugs (left and right). The connection on your soundcard is most likely 1/8" stereo miniplug. To make the connection you'll need a Y cable with two RCA plugs on one end, and a 1/8" stereo plug on the other. You might need some adapters to do this, but you can get everything at Radio Shack. Just tell them what you are trying to do.

Once you have everything physically connected, you will need software to record the .wav files. Roxio (Adaptec) makes a program called Spin Doctor that is designed for this purpose. It is part of their EZ CD Platinum package - however there are other programs that will do the same thing.

After you've recorded the .wav's, you can then burn them to CD using standard CD burning software (which is also included in EZ CD Platinum).

Do a search on "recording vinyl" and you should get lots more information. Here is one to get you started: http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=20787&highlight=recording+vinyl
 
Thank you all for the mountain of information. I hope to navigate thru all the different sections here and learn much. I will now be able to listen to my favourite audio books which up till now are not available on CD.

In genuflection, Beladona
 
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