Please read:
Digitizing Audio Tapes, an article taken from a recent Kim Komando
newsletter.
Q. I have a cassette tape of conversations with my sister in the late 1960s.
I would like to record it onto a CD. How can I do this?
A. That's cool. I wish that I had a recording of my sisters and I talking
away. It would be fun to remember what the big issues were.
Fortunately, this is relatively easy to do at home. You need to run a cable
from your cassette player or your tuner to your computer. You can buy one of
these cables for a few bucks at your local Radio Shack or electronics store.
Use the line out port on the player or tuner. Connect to the Line In port
on your computer.
You will also need software to capture the sound. I suggest you use
Audacity. It is relatively simple to create a WAV file from your tape. And
plus Audacity
is free at:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You can then burn the WAV file to a CD. Your CD should have software to do
that. Or you can use Windows Media Player, which is part of Windows.
If you plan to store the file on your computer or e-mail it to your sister,
you might want to compress it. WAV files are very large. You can convert
yours
to an MP3, which will be much smaller. Audacity has a plug-in which will
allow it to create MP3 files. Instructions are on its Web site. Or you can
use
DB PowerAMP, an excellent conversion tool. It's available free at:
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
There are many programs that will play MP3s, including Windows Media Player.
Regards.
Sandesh
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