converting cassetes to Cds

[dilloduck]

I've been looking into doing this----any tips that may help?

 

[Shattered]

Umm.. Yeah.. Spring for the actual CD. The sound difference of cassette vs. cd is outstanding... The only things I'd bother with are the things that you know for a fact have not been rereleased on CD...but expect them to sound grainy...

 

[dilloduck]

Umm.. Yeah.. Spring for the actual CD. The sound difference of cassette vs. cd is outstanding... The only things I'd bother with are the things that you know for a fact have not been rereleased on CD...but expect them to sound grainy...

waste of time to try to burn a cassette onto a CD huh?

 

[Shattered]

In my opinion, yes.. You've gotta get the burner, pay for the CDs, spend the time... Whereas you can find MOST older CDs in used bookstores for about $6.. and new releases for about $13..

 

[dilloduck]

In my opinion, yes.. You've gotta get the burner, pay for the CDs, spend the time... Whereas you can find MOST older CDs in used bookstores for about $6.. and new releases for about $13..

And the quality was bad huh? Already have a burner and blank CDs

 

[dilloduck]

Dillo - this procedure is easy so long as you have burning software. I have a program that allows you to record any source {input device,or any sound coming from souncard} so long as you have the needed adapter to hook the cassette player to the pc. If you need this piece of software let me know.

I have made several recordings from LP's & Cassettes that are not available on CD and they came out pretty good, but it's true that they are not as good a quality as the real thing however having it on discis great!

I'm not too fussy about the quality. Looked around for the software yesterday but didn't get any as I got many different answers. Is the connector from the cassette player to the pc just a Y connector? Got 2 wires coming out of the cassette but only 1 line in on the pc.

 

[Fmr jarhead]

Make sure you get the stereo connector, and not the mono, though, unless you really want to squash the sound.

 

[Shattered]

Here's the answer I got back:

I have not done this myself but it should be a simple matter of
connecting your cassette player's output (headphone or l/r channel
outputs) to the line in connection on your computer's sound card, then
firing up a sound recorder (there are many to choose from on the
Internet, and even the windows built-in sound recorder might do a decent
job).

Then hit record on the software and play on the cassette recorder. When
finished recording, you will have a .wav file you can save on your
computer. You can then either burn that file directly to a cd using
your computer's cd burner (you must have one of these), or you can first
run it through a variety of "cleanup" applications to remove background
static, white noise, crop the music to remove gaps before and after a
song, add fades, etc. I don't have any recommendations as to which
software to use for this, but the Internet should be able to help.

That's my assumptions on this process anyways. It's not blow by blow,
but like I said, I don't have firsthand knowledge of the process or tools.

 

[dilloduck]

Here's the answer I got back:

I have not done this myself but it should be a simple matter of
connecting your cassette player's output (headphone or l/r channel
outputs) to the line in connection on your computer's sound card, then
firing up a sound recorder (there are many to choose from on the
Internet, and even the windows built-in sound recorder might do a decent
job).

Then hit record on the software and play on the cassette recorder. When
finished recording, you will have a .wav file you can save on your
computer. You can then either burn that file directly to a cd using
your computer's cd burner (you must have one of these), or you can first
run it through a variety of "cleanup" applications to remove background
static, white noise, crop the music to remove gaps before and after a
song, add fades, etc. I don't have any recommendations as to which
software to use for this, but the Internet should be able to help.

That's my assumptions on this process anyways. It's not blow by blow,
but like I said, I don't have firsthand knowledge of the process or tools.

Thanks--between SE, you and some researching I came up with the same answers !--I love when that happens--I have what i need and gonna give it a shot today!

 

[hylandrdet]

I agree, buy the CDs; just make sure that you download them to your computer immediately after you buy them! This guarantees you that the purity of your songs will remain in tact.

 

[dilloduck]

I agree, buy the CDs; just make sure that you download them to your computer immediately after you buy them! This guarantees you that the purity of your songs will remain in tact.

I intend to do that from now on but with 100+ cassettes it's a bit pricey--the conversion process works pretty well and the quality is satisfactory for my needs.