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Turn your old cassette tapes to MP3s or CDs
Upgrade your music!
By Red Squirrel


Do you have some old tapes you'd like to get on a CD, or simply as mp3's to share on KaZaA? Or do you have recorded sound you need to backup?

old tapes


No problem. With your computer (with sound card), a tape recorder/player, and an audio cable with two male ends, you can easily do this.

stuff you need


Earphone jack


In my case, I have another cord in which connects to my PC's sound card, but it's the same principle, the only difference is instead of plugging the tape recorder into the computer, I plug it into the extension. On most sound cards, the audio input is blue.

Connecting everything Connecting is quite simple, simply plug in your audio source (in this case a tape recorder) into it's power source, plug the audio cable in it's earphone jack, and plug the other end in the computer's input. (in my case it's the other cable).

Recording You now need a program that can record sound. Sound Forge is good for that, and I'm sure someone can *hook you up* at our forum with other software as well. You can use Sound Recorder, which come with Windows, but the quality is bad and you are very limited in how much you can record.

Recording in progress


Most programs are pretty straightforward. To record, you simply hit record, and hit play on your tape recorder. You will need to wait till the wanted sound has finished playing, so if it's a one-hour tape, you will need to record for one hour, and some computers might not have the capacity for that, assuming you are recording in high quality wav, which is the most ideal if it's something you want to keep high quality. I recommend that if you are recording an album, that you go one song at a time, and save separate wav files. From there, you can do what you want with them, such as burning them as audio CDs as tracks to play in a CD-player, or simply keeping them on the computer. If you choose to keep them on the computer, your best bet is to record them as MP3, or convert them afterwards, as they will take less space. You can also burn data CDs and put more MP3s then you can put WAVs, if listening to it in your stereo is not what you want, but simply to keep them as files for PC use.

PC to tape If you want to do this, but from the PC to a tape (example: edited audio presentation) you can do it the same way, but instead, you would plug in the cable into the "mic" jack of the tape recorder, and into the "in" jack of the computer. You would also have to play the sound on the computer, and press record on the tape recorder.

cat and wires don't mix


I hope you enjoyed this as much as my cat did, and that it was informative to you! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate and ask them in our forum!

"Red Squirrel"
IceTeks senior administrator


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Posted by rovingcowboy on December 12th 2005 (15:48)
right click on the speaker icon in the tray
and open the mixer board.

on the mixer board you will see in the upper left corner the words options?

you want to click on that then select the round radio button for the recording
mixer.

and click okay.

then make sure you have the line in mixer set to be heard and not muted.

adjust its volume up to about 3/4's the way and click okay.

now make sure you can hear your tape when you play it in the boombox. just press the play button on the boombox with the patch cord connected.
the sound should be sent to the computer speakers
if so then you can record the tape to the computer.
you need a wav editor but lets say you have one as your trying this.

just adjust the volume on the boombox and
on the main computer volume speaker icon.

the volume on the boombox will effect the recording but the volume from the
speaker icon in the tray should not.
unless when you were in the mixer panel for recording
you made the mixer
called "what you hear"
the one to record from instead of the line in mixer.
if you did that then the speaker icon volume will mess up the
recording volume too.

I need to correct something i said in the orginal post reply i made
that red has in the orginal post, since i can nolonger edit that one i
have to correct it here.


the mediajukebox program is not the one i am using any longer.
i got rid of that just about the time i posted my orginal reply.
i am now using the wav editor in sound blasters software,
they call it Wav Studio.
and i am using Audiomatrix which is an old 16 bit one.
it cost me 5 bucks in the store's discount shelf. but it still works.

and i am using the Media monkey program to organize my songs and convert them when needing too.
media monkey is both free and pro. i use the free version.

http://www.mediamonkey.com

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Posted by PaulusMaximus on December 12th 2005 (15:43)
How you doing there, I did find this article rather informative. But I have a problem.

Everytime I hit record I get nothing but hissing, and sometimes I don't even get any sound whatsoever. I've checked over the connections, and everything is connected correctly. I just don't get ANYTHING at all apart from hissing. Can someone shed light on this issue?

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Posted by richardj on October 10th 2005 (12:04)
QUOTE (Guest @ Oct 14 2005, 03:09 AM)
always could on feedback for articles richardj.

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roving cowboy / keith hall.

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Posted by Guest on October 10th 2005 (03:13)
QUOTE (zina @ Oct 13 2005, 11:36 PM)
Hi Red Squirrel
The article is very precise as how to record tape into computer. I seem to have a problem when I hit record on Sound Recorder - nothing happens. When I test sound hardware, I get message "error occurred during DirectPlay Voice set up, error code is 0x80004005" and then "windows cannot execute DPV Setup.exe, use Add/Remove Programs control panel to install".
Would you have an idea why it doesn't work?
Your cat is beautiful - I have 6 of them.
Thank you
zina

try using the wav sound mixer and not direct voice sound?

you might also need to replace a file so try windows update

if there is a file missing, when you get most updates it searches
for missing files and replaces them if it is ms file that is missing
or has bit rot.

good luck cool.gif

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Posted by Guest on October 10th 2005 (03:09)
always could on feedback for articles richardj.

ohmy.gif

roving cowboy / keith hall.

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