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Recording Music From Cassette To Computer

Mar 14, 2004 10:10PM PST

I need help for the following:

I have a number of Audio cassete tapes (old classical music that I want to save) that I want to conver to MP3 to save space and store them on my computer for easy listening.

Can anybody give me instructions and help to do this.

I have a DELL 1GHz 256 MB Ram running Windows2000 SP4 now (want to upgrade to XP Professional soon). Computer is three years old (October 2001)

Thanks for the help.

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Re:Recording Music From Cassette To Computer
Mar 14, 2004 10:33PM PST

I searched for a freeware sound recorder/editor and then ran an audio cable from my karaoke machine to the input jack on my sound card.

I played the tape on the karaoke machine and clicked record on the program... Wasn't very difficult.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Re:Re:Recording Music From Cassette To Computer
Mar 15, 2004 4:59AM PST

Download a wave recoder, then connect a mini-jack to phono (male) from your computer then female to female phono conectors and last but not least male phono connectors to the output of your cassette player. Make sure you have connected the mini jack connector on the computer to the line-in socket on your sound card.

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Re:Recording Music From Cassette To Computer
Mar 15, 2004 7:47AM PST

I ran a connection from the headphone jack on my cassette recorder to the line-in jack on my sound card. I use MusicMatch Jukebox to record and convert.