How to Transfer a Book on Tape to a CD
Converting an audio tape to CD is surprisingly easy, once you get one crucial piece of hardware, the output-to-input cord that will connect your tape player to a computer's microphone jack. After that, it's as simple as hitting a record button.
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Instructions
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Converting a Cassette Tape to Audio CD
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Purchase the right conversion cable. Take your tape player with you to the electronics store and find a cable that plugs into the headphone jack and has the same type of jack on the other end (to plug into a computer's microphone slot). See Resources below.
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Download Audacity, an open-source (free) audio-recording/conversion program. It will record and convert the cassette's audio into any format you want.
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Plug the cable into the cassette player and into the microphone jack of your computer. Start a new file Audacity. Hit "play" on the cassette player and "record" on Audacity.
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Save the finished audio files as .wav or .mp3 files. Different audio CD burners like different formats. Some popular burning programs are Nero, Windows Media, and Express Burn.
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Burn the audio CD. Put a blank CD-R into your CD drive. Then open your burning software. When the software opens, click "Audio CD," drag the new audio files to the burning window, and click "burn."
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Tips & Warnings
The real key here is that cable with two male ends. There's no better way to capture the audio without losing too much quality that to do it this way.
Also, make sure that the computer actually has a CD burner installed, not just a CD player.
References
Resources
- Photo Credit cassette image by Shawn Stallard from Fotolia.com
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Comments
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pleiades357
Dec 05, 2010
Found the cable, plugged both in to the microphone port but Audacity seems to find only the microphone (USB port), how do I select the audio input from the cable? I've tried.. can't figure it out... Great article! I have some old tapes I'd like to convert and library has some old audio tapes I'd like to listen to on ipod... good instructions! If only I were not such an amateur.
