Getting Sound Into My Computer From a Cassette Player

I also am interested in doing conversion.

Tell me two things:

1. If the volume of player is high (or full) can it damage anything in the computer?

2. Which software you suggest for the conversion?

Thanks

1) No. But the misic will sound very broken up if too loud.

2) Audacity is a great free to download program, comparable to many expensive programs....

If you need a Weblink for Audacity just ask.

Hi Suhas,

i have lots of old vinyl LP records. So my son sent me this Audio Technica record player (with a magnetic cartridge, no less!), which internally converts and gives a USB output to the PC. Cakewalk and Audacity software supplied. Only $70 ! Excuse the mess, i was anxious to try it out.

For friends, relatives, i must have converted >250 LPs to date. You are welcome to send me yours (freight paid of course )

Thanks for offer

But, I do not have any LPs (I loved the quality of LPs). I have cassettes

Anything available to convert audio out of cassette player to USB?

See Garthh's Imic link in #7.

Since i didn't have a record player anyway, i went for the Audio Technica one. For cassettes, i just used a Sony as i mentioned before.

Yes, I did it successfully yesterday.

www.avs4you.com is great site with many video, Audio, image softwares

Audio Recorder is one which we want for conversion from cassette to mp3

Now, shortly every thing on cassettes with me will be in mp3.. great

GA.

If the recorder (if its a quality machine, anything less is not good) also has a "Line out", connecting the that to the computer "line in" may fix all the possible level problems.....

To the OP:-

If the cassettes are pre recorded with Dolby (check the label), don't forget to switch it on first to reduce the tape noise, or you will be having a lot of cleanup work to do......remember there are two Dolby systems, "B" and "C".....

Further to rhkramer's suggestions; forget the USB idea.

A USB input is a serial digital port. Analogue (the stuff that comes out of your cassette player headphone socket) would have to be converted to a series of digital samples, and then converted to a stream of serial digital data conforming to the USB spec.

That's why they're expensive.

Please check the following and similar sites at www.google.com :

http://www.polderbits.com/HowToConnect.htm#input

http://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Cassette-Tape-to-Computer

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/transfer-audio-cassette-to-computer

I would suggest if you buy a PVR (personal video recorder) in that case you are capable to transfer TV program besides audio to your computer.

i used my treasured Sony Walkman powered by batteries (not the mains adaptor since it gave a hum) via the line input to my PC and converted the music to MP3 using Audacity software.

Another way might be to output it to an mp3 player.

I have an old samsung yp (yop or something like that). It has an input called inc and it records the file as mp3, I think.

(I have not done it in years so I forget).

Last time I used it, a guy used to interview heavy metal bands on his mp3 player, but he had lost or damaged his mp3 player to computer connection. So he couldn't upload the interviews to his website. He was extremely disappointed.

I ended up outputting his earphone to my line enc and it worked perfectly to save his interviews.

So you have your output from the line out or earphone line and it goes in to the line in of the mp3 player. (Inc on mine)

Later you can use the "audacity" free program to snip your big mp3 file into the individual song files. My mp3 player is an old 512 mb thing but even something that small should be ample.

Brian

This sort of question comes up from time to time

Back when I was on windows this was my method

I'm not quite sure if you have a pc, whichwould generally have a line in, so the only extra hardware is a 1/8"male to 1/8"male patch cord, maybe $5 at radioshack or similar.

You can buy an Imic for a laptop, which will plug into USB for $25 or so, you will have to run the software that comes with it & play around with the input source [or something like that] on control panel. works fine

I've probably turned 5000 lp's or cassettes into mp3 files using the method I linked to above.

recently I found this tool which if I did a good job of editing will find proper titles

I forgot, there is a nice little machine around in most countries that can be seen here (if you can read German!):-

http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/346418/ION-TAPE-EXPRESS-CASETTEN-ENCODER/1404050

or a picture is here:-

This is a USB cassette player which converts to MP3......or it's a normal cassette player as well......Costs around €30 here from an expensive shop.....you should be able to get it far cheaper.....so shop around!

Thanks for all the comments. Some were very helpful but none worked. Eventually I managed to link the microphone outlet of the cassette player to the input socket on the back of an Ion turntable and the turntable USB to my computer. It worked.

lunnemail

Sorry you couldn't get it working through the PC line input - many of us here have done it from a variety of audio sources with no problem. Puzzled.

You now have a sytem that does what you want it to, so that's the important bit.

Just found this on our Staff Page. Its also available to the public through Telstra outlets in Australia, but if someone makes it, you should be able to find one somewhere.

The USB Turntable & Cassette Converter is a worthwhile addition to your home. Not only will this system convert your vinyl records and cassette tapes to digital format, so you can burn them to CD for safe keeping, or listen to them on your mp3 player - but thanks to the in-built amplifier and stereo speakers you can also enjoy rocking out to your favourite music straight from the converter itself.

So instead of trying to buy new music for Mum and Dad, why not just give them their old music back.

The recommended retail price is $179.95 AUS

Visit http://shop.bigpond.com/Campaign.asp for more detail.

Cheers

Tony

Electronics are expensive in Australia bit would appear.

I would expect that same unit or similar to be half that price in Europe or the USA......

I did post previously here a casstte player that converted to mp3 and it cost less than €30 even in an expensive German shop......I forget which post it was.....