How can you convert audio cassette tapes to digital files?

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We can convert audio cassette to digital files by analogue to digital conversion,which consist of following parts such as, 1. Sampling process, 2.quantization 3.encoding

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It's not very difficult to do this. All you need is a 2 channel (stereo) input on your sound card, or you can buy a usb 2 channel preamp to interface your machine that way. Most sound cards don't work very well for bringing in this type of audio because of cheap connectors and cheap preamps. However the cheapest way to accomplish this is to purchase a RCA-1/8" adapter at RadioShack. (It will be stereo RCA female to 1/8" stereo male). You will then connect your RCA cable from the "out" or "play" of the tape deck to the line input of your sound card using the adapter. You can then use a audio program like cool edit pro or similar to record the two tracks of audio to your hard drive. Obviously there needs to be some basic knowledge of the audio software and where proper levels should be, but that is beyond the scope of this answer.

The best and highest quality way of doing this is to have a seperate preamp into your computer. The cheapest are USB audio interfaces like the one linked here: musiciansfriend.com

If the link doesn't work it's a Edirol UA-1X USB Audio Interface with RCA I/O to allow audio inputs to your computer via USB. This is just one example of hardware, but this will do the trick. You still will need some audio application to record the audio from tape. Depending on which preamp you use it may be necessary to use adapters to mate the connections.

Here is a little info on levels: In your audio recording software you will want to set your input levels to peak at a little less than "0 dbfs" otherwise it will cause distortion. Some applications have a "normalize" feature that will take your recorded signal and bring the peak to maximum levels 0dbfs, it then raises the overall level the same amount. This will allow you to record the audio at lower levels to avoid "clipping" and then bring the levels up later. There are many tools out there for restoring and de-noise tape recordings, however that is also beyond what I wish to discuss.

I have a project studio and have done this in the past using my Digi001 Pro Tools interface. This is a bit more than the hardware I mentioned, but the principle is the same. I haved used a number of techniques such as compression and limiting and also some eq techniques and aural exciters to enhance the quality of a digitized tape. The options are endless.

I'm sure this is more than you were looking for, but maybe it was useful anyway.

-Shawn

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U can always use the input connector at your sound card, by using end to end mini stereo plug(jack), connect the other end to your cassette tape head phone outlet to the input, then use the windows sound recorder to record analogue sounds then save the file as a wave file, or you can convert it to an mp3 file later using some program

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Use DMC auxiliary input (download this from www.download.com)and its parent program dBpoweramp music convertor. I think you need both to run.

Attach a cable from the headphone socket of the device and plug the other end into the LINE IN socket of your sound card (most sound cards will have a line in, mic in, out)

You can listen to the music as you are recording. dMC auxiliary input will detect the start and stop sections of each song and save your files as MP3.

Great way to save tracks from old LDs, cassette tapes etc.

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While the methods described by others would work, perhaps the most convenient method is to purchase one of the small MP3 portable audio devices now on the market. Some of these are playback only, and some support only recording via their built-in microphone. But many models now also accept "line-level" signals from any audio component, so one could feed the signal from a tape deck into the device directly. Then the device can transfer the file via USB cable to the computer.

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One way is to record live from the audio device playing the cassette into line in of the computer using a studio software such as Sonic Sound Foundry. Then You can save the application as a digital format and name it. Or You can record the audio live into a Tascam CD Recorder then extract it from the cd then save as a digital format.

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It is very simple to do this. you just plug your cassette tape audio out connector in to your pc sound card "audio in" port . run the jet audio program on pc. click on record and play the cassette. and record your audio in to digital sound. and enjoy :) jh_haroon@hotmail.com

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There are basically two steps:

Step 1: Wire a cassette player's output to a computer sound card's input.

Step 2: Play the cassette on the cassette player while recording the sound using software on the PC.

Details:

Step 1:

You wire the output of a cassette player to an input ("microphone" or "line in") on the sound card of your computer.

When I did this 3-1/2 years ago, I used the microphone input, and I found that I needed to reduce the input signal level, and I did so with a couple of resistors, the values of which I chose experimentally. Basically, I started with a good guess, and used trial and error to tweak it until it sounded good. (But I'll bet that someone makes a prebuilt adapter to do it.)

This schematic might be readable and actually make sense if viewed in a monospace font. I don't know whether the HTML 'pre' and '/pre' tags work on this web site, but here goes:

+-------------------+
| |
R=ring o---/\/\/\/--+--/\/\/\/-+ +-----o R=ring
R1 R2 |
cassette | sound card
player | input
earphone sleeve o----+------------------+---+----------o sleeve ("line in"
out | | or mic)
Gnd |
R1 R2 |
L=tip o------/\/\/\/--+--/\/\/\/--+ +----o tip
| |
+-----------------+

The resistors should be fairly low values. The actual values depend on whether you can use a "line in" input, or must use the "microphone" input. (The "line in" input expects 0-2v, and the "microphone" input expects 0-0.2v.) For use with the "microphone" input, try 100 ohms or so for the R1s, and 10 ohms or so for the R2s. For use with the "line in" input, try using equal values for all four resistors, perhaps 50 ohms, or if the sound level seems low you can even replace the R1s with wires (0 ohms).

The resistors' power ratings don't matter, 1/4 W or 1/8 W carbon resistors should be fine.

Note: the "tip," "ring," and "sleeve" terms will make sense of you think about what the metal contacts look like on a headphone or microphone plug: "tip" is the tip of the plug, "ring" is the next contact, and "sleeve" is the long contact starting at the base of the plug.

Step 2:

After you have the cassette player output successfully wired up to your PC sound card input, you're ready to play your cassette and record it on the computer.

You'll need to run a program on the computer to record from the microphone or "line in" input to a computer file, while you play your cassette. I think that I used GoldWave 4.26; they have a later, more expensive version, now: http://www.goldwave.com/

However, there are free programs that can do the job: http://www.k7v.com/nonags/auedit.html http://www.k7v.com/nonags/autools.html

(The "Sound Recorder" that comes with Windows will suffice for testing your connections, but it is basically just a toy. As I recall, it will only record very short snippets of sound.)

But before you install any downloaded program, first look up the name of the program on these two sites, to ensure that it is not on a list of known spyware: http://www.spywareguide.com/ http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/search.aspx

If either of those sites list the program, DO NOT install it!!

Some "recorder" programs can only save your recording in .WAV format. So you might need to use another program to convert the .WAV file to .MP3 format (which is compressed and thus much more compact). See the "nonags" links, above, for several such programs.

If you are going to be converting lots of cassette tapes, there are devices you can buy just for that purpose: http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?satitle=%28PlusDeck2%2CPlusDeck2c%2CPlusDeck%2C%22Plus+Deck%22%29

-Dave dave at burtonsys dot com but please no spam

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