Anyone know who can convert cassettes to cd?

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Im' looking for a company or individual who can convert a couple of cassettes for me onto cd. I only need a couple doing so its not worth me buying the kit and software to do it. If anyone on the forum can do it i can pay via paypal no problem. Any help appreciated please.
 
If you have a computer with a mic socket and a cassette player (and a cable to run between the 2) - do it yourself!!

Download a freeware application called Audacity which allows you to record in all manner of formats.

Of course, the quality will only be as good as the quality on the cassette - but Audacity does have some nice clean-up features....

Good luck :D
 
what are they? maybe the content can be downloaded of the net.
 
either do as suggested above, play them into a mic and record it or look around for a USB cassette player. I know you can get USB vinyl players for records vinyl disks into digital format so I would image you can do the same for cassette.
 
Harvey_nikon said:
either do as suggested above, play them into a mic and record it
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I know I'm probably being pedantic here - but that's not what I suggested. Doing that will get you all kinds of terrible quality...

You need a cable which runs from the cassette player to the PC mic socket - therefore no background noise will interfere - the cassette player sees the cable as a pair of headphones, and the PC sees the other end as a microphone, but there is no other noise able to interfere with the sound.

A cable like this should cost you no more than a few pounds - and will probably be 3.5mm to 3.5mm - but ensure that your PC has stereo input and make sure the cable is stereo.
 
Deano said:
Im' looking for a company or individual who can convert a couple of cassettes for me onto cd. I only need a couple doing so its not worth me buying the kit and software to do it. If anyone on the forum can do it i can pay via paypal no problem. Any help appreciated please.
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I can do it for you if you like mate, I need to do some of my old helter skelter tapes in the coming weeks. Ill be using my Yamaha tape deck to my HTPC to do the recording.
Let me know and I can PM my address.
 
OutLore said:
the cassette player sees the cable as a pair of headphones, and the PC sees the other end as a microphone, but there is no other noise able to interfere with the sound.
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That too is also a recipe for a terible recording.

You need a lead with a 3.5mm stereo jack at one end which plugs into the LINE IN of the sound card, not the MIC IN and the other end of the lead needs to split out into two RCA phono sockets which you need to connect to the LINE OUT sockets on the back of the tape player.

Going from headphone out to mic in presents too high a signal level to the microphone input stage and will probably distort it. If you can balance the levels so it isn't distorting, you will probably end up with a very high signal to noise ratio.


Steve.
 
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Steve Smith said:
That too is also a recipe for a terible recording.

You need a lead with a 3.5mm stereo jack at one end which plugs into the LINE IN of the sound card, not the MIC IN and the other end of the lead needs to split out into two RCA phono sockets which you need to connect to the LINE OUT sockets on the back of the tape player.

Going from headphone out to mic in presents too high a signal level to the microphone input stage and will probably distort it. If you can balance the levels so it isn't distorting, you will probably end up with a very high signal to noise ratio.


Steve.
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And I stand corrected, kind of, as on my laptop there is only 1 input and it's software controlled as to what it does. (I'm not saying it's perfect - but it does the job nicely with Audacity)
 
DpM said:
I can do it for you if you like mate, I need to do some of my old helter skelter tapes in the coming weeks. Ill be using my Yamaha tape deck to my HTPC to do the recording.
Let me know and I can PM my address.
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Heh heh, can you do my back catalogue too, along with my Dreamscape ones???? ;) :D :D:banana:
 
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