Does there exist a reasonably priced device that can burn music from cassette tapes onto CD, and if so, what is it called?

zbeckabee

A couple of suggestions on this link: CoolEdit music match jukebox http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/146960.html Jan 18 07, 10:21 PM

zbeckabee

Music Match Jukebox is free Jan 18 07, 10:22 PM

What-A-Mess

Ah yes! Either of these programs will work IF you can get a cassette player to operate THROUGH your PC. Might need a card or interface to do so. Something like this..... http://www.zzounds.com/item--RLLGCI404 http://www.zzounds.com/item--RLLGCI404 Jan 19 07, 7:16 PM

McGruff

I have my stereo and TV components connected to a receiver, and there is a cord you can buy to connect the receiver to your computer. It will have two input/output jacks on the receiver end, and a small input jack on the computer end. Jan 19 07, 10:04 PM

What-A-Mess

Dual RCA (stereo) to Single 1/8 stereo male plug. Readily available at Radio Shack or the like. Here is a picture... http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/adapters-rca-18.html http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/adapters-rca-18.html Jan 19 07, 10:39 PM

What-A-Mess

This configuration will work if you computer has a microphone input (stereo for quality) or the like. If I recall...Does Gmack not work off a dinosaur or am I thinking of another contributor? MARK Jan 19 07, 10:42 PM

What-A-Mess

Wow! Did I not miss the entire question. There is no mention of computer! Any receiver (by standards) should be able to record a Cassette on to a CD as long as it is a burner. Jan 19 07, 10:45 PM

Baloo55th

Unless Gmack has caught up with the rest of us, he won't be wanting a computer based solution, I think. From the number of people enquiring on the net about transferring cassette tape to CD, I don't think devices to do this are very common. And the solutions suggested all involve PCs. Even if you got an external CD burner, it would still need to be controlled by a PC. So far as I can see, most of the audio hi-fi stuff and ghetto blasters have equipment built in to record CD onto tape, but none of them seem to incorporate burners. Possibly this is because the recording on the tape is very simple stuff based on magnetic patterns, while the CD recording is in coded groups of digital data that need a CPU to organise. Apart from which, the big record companies weren't too happy about CD burners in PCS, but couldn't stop them because they were also used for data transfer. This excuse couldn't be made in the case of an audio device. And basically, unless it's your own home made recording, it IS illegal to copy tapes, CDs and DVDs. They weren't too happy about tape-to-tape transfers, either, but that got past. There was a certain amount of excuse of making a back-up copy. With the supposed indestructibility of CDs (ha, ha) that went out the window. Jan 20 07, 10:30 AM

gmackematix

Thanks for that, people. Yes, I am a bit of a technophobe who came across this site through a WAP phone. I am only on the Internet now due to a cheap box that connects through my TV (a dinosaurian tricera-set-tops). I do have a laptop that is not online but has a lot of tunes I have ripped from CDs onto my computer and cases full of cassettes that I haven't listened to for ages. I have their conversion to digital on a long list of things to get around to doing... Jan 21 07, 8:01 PM