Recording

[Bubblehead]

I have some good music cassettes which I would like to load into my PC's Music Library and eventually convert it to a CD. Does this involve conversion from analog to digital? Is there such a device on the market? I know there are DVD/VHS players that can convert VHS tqpes to CDs.

Bubblehead

[the_autopilot]

You cassette mucic onto your PC. But it will be tricky.

The simplest way is to get a audio cable and connect one end into the headphones jack on your cassette player and the other into your PC's mic jack. Then hit play on the casseste dack, and use a sound recording program like windows sound recorder and hit record.

Sound recorder is locaded in start>assesories>entertainment on win XP. Not sure about other windows, but it should be the same.

[mikec]

Bubblehead: You can download a free program from Download.com called Audacity which will record from a tape deck or whatever. Just plug the output of your deck into your sound card input. You'll probably have to open up your sound properties (click on speaker in taskbar) and go to options\properties and selcet record and then select the device that you want to record from. Go to the Audacity program and  use the main page and it's self explanatory from there .This will record from your tape deck into a wav. file and you can store it in a directory of your choice. This is by no means the only way to do it, there are many programs (free or paided) that will do this. If you have a Soundblaster card in your computer it usually has a sound recorder with it. The sound recorder that you find in accessories is limited to a certain amout of time for recording ,so it's not the best way to go.Once you've got enough wav. files recorded them burn them to a CD and you have to make it an audio CD to make it playable in any CD player other than your computer. Hope this might help some. Mike C.