All I want to do is record an audio cassette tape and burn it onto a cd. Help!

[mellondust]

I don't know very much about recording audio from a line-in on my sound card onto a computer. All I want to do is record some old audio cassettes onto my computer and them burn them onto a cd. How do you do this? Is there any additional hardware that I will need? Is there some program that I should use, becuase all I can find that will even record anything from my microphone or tape player is that cheapo windows sound recorder. Is there anything that can give me the kind of options that you get when recording a cd in win-amp or windows media player? I am clueless in this area, do I already have the program that I need? Please give me some pointers of how to use it. I looked through the programs that came with my sound blaster live!, but haven't found anything that will work. It can't be that hard can it?

 

[boran]

u need a cable to connect to your line-in by a mini-jack, and u mihght need to ckech if there is no amplefier in the deck cous we dont want to fry your soundcard dont we ?

then u need something like cool edit or goldwave to record (both shareware programs)

and then u just need to record, remove some hiss, pops clicks or so and then u can sav as a wav file which can be burned to an audio-CD by programs such as EZ CD creator or nero.

hope this helped u further ...

 

[Bleep]

Goldwave is a excellent prog. to use for what you want to do. My suggestion is to record only 1 song at a time and clean it up with the program that you decide to use. You can make the music almost as good as when the tape was new.
Bleep

 

[Pauli]

I've used the Creative Recorder (from the Live!ware download?) to record from the Tape Deck to the input jack on my SB Live! with good results. I connect a cable from the Headphone jack of the Tape deck (1/4" stereo) to the Line-in on the sound card (1/8" Stereo).