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Question by Mustardseed
Submitted on 1/5/2004
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Is there any way to transfer a cassette tape to a CD? Do I need an actual appliance or is there a way to do it from the CD burner on my computer?

Answer by Bellbox
Submitted on 2/10/2004
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A way I have used in the past is to use a Walkman or tape deck hooked to your computer through a headphones patch cable (simple cable with male adapters on either end ~$4.00) and plug into your computer's microphone port on the sound card. You will need a sound recording software program; there are many of them that are good, I sometimes recommend Goldwave as you can do editing to the final file if needed. Simply set up the levels correctly, record into your program as a WAV file, and burn to CD.

Answer by Med
Submitted on 4/10/2004
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Your microphone jack on your computer doesn't provide enough bandwidth to get a good sound quality out of the tape cassette. If you happen to have a line in or firewire port on your computer, I would recommend using that. There are several cables out there that has a headphone jack at one end and a firewire jack on the other.

Answer by Mugsy
Submitted on 5/26/2006
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I have been transferring tapes to MP3 for a while now, and I was wondering about the quality of tape. What is the bandwidth or audio resolution of standard cassette tape? I have been wondering what is the best compression to use for the MP3's, is 128k 44100hz ok, or should it be higher. Maybe I can set it lower and get away without too much loss. I haven't found anyone who can answer this convincingly yet.

Answer by Jason
Submitted on 6/23/2006
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maybe you could put it in your butt and then when you take it out it will be a cd. (!)

Answer by weallwin
Submitted on 12/18/2006
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I found a site that has an "excellent" step by step interactive video plus, gives you all the programs needed to transfer the tapes to CD...check it out! www.simplyhowto.com/t2cd

Answer by kobeB8
Submitted on 3/5/2007
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listen to bellbox. Go to download.com and download polderbits sound record for free for a 14 day trail. and go from there, it actually makes it sound better. Med doesnt no what he is talking about

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