What is the best way to transfer audio tapes to MP3?

[aaron7879]

What is the best way to transfer audio tapes to MP3?

 

[electronicsfreak]

Best bet is get a 1/4 male to rca female stereo adapter. Run the rcas into the input of a tape recorder and then record.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Woops misread that, what you should do is take that same configuration just put the rcas in the ouput of the tape player and the jack into the mic jack of the sound card. You can probally use windows sound recorder to record them into wav and then use a program for converting them into mp3. You can probally find one on download.com

http://www.download.com

 

[linney]

See if any of the suggestions in these links are worthwhile.

Audio capture with Sound Recorder
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Recording WAV. file in XP
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http://www.polderbits.com/audio-recorder.html?ref=adword1

 

[lpblauen]

There is a product I just bought that makes coping audio tapes to mp3 or wave a snap. Its called plusdeck2. You can find it for around 80 bucks. Its a cassette player for the pc. I found info on it looking for a way to convert my cassette audio books to cd's. Works great. Here is the link to the company that makes it.

http://www.plusdeck.com/Englishsite/product_01.html

 

[aaron7879]

WHere did you see it for $80? Places I check were $100 or more

 

[Nelviticus]

I couldn't see it on their site, but from previous pictures I've seen the PlusDeck has a cable sticking out the back that you have to connect to the 'line in' of your sound card. You may as well just do the same thing with your existing tape player and save yourself some money.

Nelviticus

 

[aaron7879]

What type of cable do I need to go from my existing table player to the line in on the sound card?

 

[lpblauen]

http://www.geeks.com

had it for christmas for $85 dollars. Now its up to 109.00 Yes there is a cable that goes to the sound card but what makes this so easy is you can tell it to record 1 side or both sides all by its self. It can also do music cassettes and make each song a mp3 or wave with out you having to monitor it. I just start one up and check it about a hour later and the files are ready. The other way I have to guess how long each side is and tell the software to record just 35 or 37 minutes and get lots of blank space in the file which I would then have to edit. this way there is no guessing how long something is just start and forget for a while.

 

[Rick998]

An audio cable - either stereo or mono (or split convertor) depending obviously on what type of audio input sockets you have on your PC's sound card and the audio ouput connections on your table player.

What have you tried so far?

 

[cdogg]

aaron7879,

This is the type of cable you need, which you can get from just about any store that sells electronics (such as RadioShack):

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103865&cp=&kw=y+audio+cable&parentPage=search

The "headphone" like connector plugs into the "line in" port on your PC's soundcard. You would then need recording software to make the WAV file (MP3 is lower quality, but would also work).

~cdogg
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