CD 's ( or DVD's ) from a cassette tape

[Rolf Grunsky]

On 15-04-07 12:31 AM, Bill wrote:
> I have a friend that has some music on cassette tapes she wants to
> convert them to CD format.   I have a cassette tape player that can dub
> tapes and has a separate jack for headphones.  Is there any way that I
> could record that output (say on the microphone port) and then save it
> as a CD?
>
Well you can but that's not the way to do it. What you want to do is 
connect the line out from the tape player and connect it to the line on 
the computer. On many computers the microphone input in monaural and you 
will lose one channel. The line out from the player may also overload 
the microphone input.

For about $45(cdn) you can get a Behringer USB Audio Interface. This is 
an Analog/Digital and Digital/Analog interface that you can connect your 
player to and it will do the analog/digital conversion directly. It 
works well with Audacity under Linux.

In any event, Audacity works well to do the recording. You can then use 
Audacity to remove background tape noise. Make sure that you record 16 
bit samples at 44.1KHz (CD standard) if you intend to create audio CDs.

All the above assumes that your tape player has line outputs. If it 
doesn't then you can use the headphone output (with somewhat lower 
quality) and run that into the line inputs. Set the headphone volume as 
high as you can without overloading the line inputs.

I've copied a lot of tapes using the above Behringer unit.

R

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