[andy<33]

maybe there is one of you know how to transfer an audio cassette to an audio CD, i mean it is converted to mp3 or anything like that?

thanks

[system]

Your cassette player should have one of these outputs or perhaps both.

3.5 mm plug - your everyday headphone plug (ex: iPod)
RCA plug - white and red plug found in audio systems, tv, etc.

Find a cable that has one of the jacks above at one end and a 3.5 mm jack at the other end.
Insert the 3.5 mm jack to the PC's soundcard's input plug (labeled as line-in).
If you can't find any, then plug it to the microphone plug.

From the PC, launch an audio application that can record and save.
Depending on the setup above, select line-in or microphone as the recording source.
Play the cassette and start recording.
Save the file as wav or mp3.



The process may differ depending on your devices and PC configuration.

[andy<33]

ok, thanks; i wil try it....i must go search for the plug in first!

[dot1q]

Save the file as wav. If you save to mp3, it's going to re-encode from an already highly compressed file (mp3) a second time when burning the cd. You want to create the cd from as high a fidelity source as possible (wav files). Either way your final cd is going to sound worse than your original tape so you want to minimize the degredation as much as possible.

[awdark]

I like this topic, what source do you think is best? Should I go look for a old casette deck or something because my mom dug this HUGE pile of chinese tapes out and want me to convert it to Mp3 CDs for her car =__=;;
My old walkman sounds terrible on the computer, and im not sure if its just casettes that sound that bad or if its my player. If its the tapes, im going to convert them to 64kb MP3s

[dot1q]

You want to use as good of a tape deck, 3.5mm cable, and sound card as possible. It's an analog conversion and using the best possible equipment to process and transfer the signal is preferable. Obviously, don't go out of your way to spend extra money to do this, but just use whatever best you have available to you. Depending on how crappy your tape deck is, I think thats where you'll lose the most quality due to noise and analog signal degredation. If anything try to use the best tape deck possible.