Transfer of audio cassettes to hard drive

[Richard]

I have many audio cassettes that never made it to CD's.
Is there a way to transfer these to the hard drive of a
Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop? Transfer source could be a
conventional shelf audio cassette player or personal
type. (Objective is to create CD's from hadr drive
music library).

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

It can be done. First, you need software that is capable of handling this.
I know Easy CD Creator has a utility for it and there may be some free
utilities such as free versions MusicMatch or WinAmp that can do it but I
have checked those lately so I'm not sure if the free versions can handle
this task.

Second, the cassette player should be connected to an amplifier or receiver
and the cabling should be from that to the inputs on your soundcard. Most
Radio Shacks have the proper cables and connections if you don't have them
at home, they are inexpensive and they can probably guide you as to what
you'll need though they will need some information from you.

With the proper application, the music can be brought to the hard drive and
from those files audio CDs can be created.

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"Richard" > wrote in message
...
> I have many audio cassettes that never made it to CD's.
> Is there a way to transfer these to the hard drive of a
> Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop? Transfer source could be a
> conventional shelf audio cassette player or personal
> type. (Objective is to create CD's from hadr drive
> music library).

[Alex Nichol]

Richard wrote:

>I have many audio cassettes that never made it to CD's.
>Is there a way to transfer these to the hard drive of a
>Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop? Transfer source could be a
>conventional shelf audio cassette player or personal
>type.

Connect from the player to your sound card. The line in socket will
probably work with a phones output if you do not have a lineout on the
player. Then I use a shareware program CD Wave from www.cdwave.com
($15) to convert to WAV files, and for splitting and tidying into
trac=ks, that can then be burned to CD as an audio CD


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)