what do i have to do, to copy my cassette tapes to the hard drive?
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Difficult to write all the steps down here, but you can have a look at the following for some guidance (currently under development...) http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/DIY/how_to.htm This is certainly 'do-able', if you have the patience....\nYou will need a cassette player (!), PC with a stereo input to soundcard, conversion software and CD writer.\nNote: if you are using a laptop, you may need a USB external soundcard (mine has only a mono mic input – not good enough!) – you can get cheap, simple but effective ones (from Hong Kong) via ebay…\nYou could get someone to do it for you, there are plenty to choose from out on the web, this type of job is perfect for a 'virtual' studio.\nThe software is probably the thing you really want to know about.. you will find loads out there. Personally I use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab – primarily produced for lifting vinyl, but will take any analogue signal. It has loads of features including cleaning filters, effects and editing… it’s cheap too and even comes with a stereo cable – try ebay. There are loads more, some even free downloads (audacity avaiable from download.com)– listen to folks who have used the software then have a go….\nOh yeah, and Magix has automatic track recognition based on silence between tracks and auto-stop recording so you can go out for the day and it will stop at the end of your tape – really useful!! You will use up loads of hard-drive space, so don’t try this if you are pushed for space…You may need to purge the huge files every so often (10MB per minute WAV files, 1MB per minute MP3). You could save some space recording directly into MP3 at the sacrifice of a little sound quality
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http://www.polderbits.com/\ncheck this site out and hope you get the software you need. i had done the same thing about 3 months back and now i have all my music tapes on my hard disk! well hope this answers your question.
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EQUIPMENT NEEDED\n\nHARDWARE\n\nCassette Deck \nComputer With Sufficient Harddisk (to store the .wav files) and RAM (to edit and process the files) \nCD Writer \nSoundcard \nInterconnect cables for connection between the cassette deck and the soundcard \nSOFTWARE\n\nAudio Recording Software \nNoise Reduction Software or Plug-in (Optional) \nCD Authoring Software \n\nThat is the beginning of this website: http://web.singnet.com.sg/~lion4/articles/diy/cassette.html
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if you have windows, double click "my computer".  Then drag the files to the icon for the disk you want to use.  It has to be a writable disk drive, like a floppy drive or a writable CD drive.
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Go to Illustrate.com @  www.dbpoweramp.com \nDownload 'dbpoweramp' along with the 'Auxiliary Input' addition.\nThis program will allow you to play a cassette (or LP etc.) through your stereo INTO your computer and record the results onto  your hard drive - convert to mp3, ogg vorbis, etc. or burn to disk.  I am a recording engineer, and this is one of the easiest and best 'user friendly' audo conversion apps out there.  Excellent tutorials with easy to understand 'how to' graphics.  Best of all....it's FREE! FREE FREE FREE...........YIPPEE!!\nHave fun,\nwally space\nLost in Space Studios
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Install them into your computer as slave drives and access them thru my computer.  Should be able to cut/copy and paste.  If you do not want to open the computer purchase an ide to usb cable or an external enclosure.  Simply make all of the connections and then do the same as an internal hard drive.  WinXP should automatically find  the drives and install the necesary drivers.  I have done it on several old 5.25" hard drives.  I use them as backups, nothing like extending the life of 7 yr old tech.\n\nFirst link ide to usb cables (I personally have the Bytecc)\nSecond link external enclosures\n\nHope this helps.
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If your computer has an IDE connection it should be easy enough. The first thing you'll need is an extra bay for the hard drive, or if you're willing to take the chance just take the computer case off and just let the hard drive hang loose. Next you'll also need another IDE cable to plug into the drive and another power connection. Plugging these two in are pretty self-explanatory - they only fit one way. After you get those hooked up you might need to move the jumper(the little black thing that goes over the pins) to the slave position. Some other tips: if you don't have an extra IDE cable in your computer just take the one of the DVD or CD drive and attach to the hard drive, if the hard drive is formatted with FAT, FAT32, or NTFS you should be OK if you're running Windows 2000 or XP, for the jumper usually the hard drive sticker on it will show the different jumper connections. If not it usually doesn't matter but make sure that is your last resort, and finally if you have a SATA connection that should be OK too(the SATA cable is the orange or res small cable and the IDE cable is the big, fat, grey one). Once you get all of these things done your BIOS might say 'found new hard drive press Enter to continue', after that when you're logged into Windows just transfer all the files you need off of that hard drive to the one you want to move them to.
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You would need the install CD, and you would have to copy the files over manually with something like a flash drive or CD that you burned.
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If your Cassette recorder is a small portable follow what bravo1200 said. If your Cassette recorder is a Stereo Component type, you will need a RCA to Mini Plug adapter cable. Plug the RCA end into the Input Jacks on the recorder and the Mini Plug into the Sound Card's LINE OUT.\n\nIf you end up using the Speaker Out Jack, your audio will not be as good (Low Volume). If you boost the Record Level on the cassette recorder you may encounter distortion and Tape Hiss during playback.\n\nAhh yeah! That is the problem with PCs having On Board Audio. Typically you have Line In, Mic, and Speaker Jacks. Even an inexpensive Audio Card will have the additional Line Out jack. A Line out jack will have the proper electrical levels for recording or sending PC audio to external devices like your stereo.
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if its a cassete you will need to use the vhs to cd converter that is cassete to cd.there are special shops where they do this for you
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If you have old casset tapes lying around and want to convert them into cds then first you need to buy a cable at your local best buy or whatever. It should have 2 identical ends that are like a headphone cord. One plugs into a tapeplayer that you will need to get and the other end plugs into your microphone port. Then you run Audacity, push record in the Audacity UI and then push the play button on your tape player. You can stop it after ever song and restart or you can just let it go (my prefered method) while you are in the other room watching tv. And then use the cut and paste feature to split the songs up, and then you can do some fine tuning. (Fade ins and fade outs if u want, but out dead time, and the static reduction) Export as .wav or .mp3 if you downloaded the lame mp3 encoder (also free and u might as well get that too) Then use your favorite burning software, and you have just converted a tape to a cd for the cost of a blank cd (like $.25) and about $4 for the cord. If I understand the laws right, it is also a legal copy since you own the tape.\n\n\n<audacity.sourceforge.net>  to download audaicty\n\n\nBy the way, it doesn't really matter what you export the files as, if you are making an audio cd (one that can be played on pcs, in your car, dvd players, and all that stuff) the burning process converts whatever your file starts as (.mp3,.wav) to .cda\n\nIf you are making a data disk (can only be played on pcs and some dvd players) then .mp3 is the way to go because you can put about 200 or so on a disk where only like 10-15 .wav would fit
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You can connect it on a working computer, then go to My Computer -> right click on the external drive -> then click format.\n\nhope this helps...
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Use the sound recorder in your accessories folder and burn the result to CD.
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1. Begin by placing the floppy disk that you want to copy into your floppy drive.\n2. Then double click on the My Computer icon on your Desktop until it opens.\n3. Then gently click on the 3½ Floppy (A:) icon just until it becomes highlighted.\n4. Then click on the word File, which is contained in your top tool bar area.\n5. This will pull down a menu for you to now click on Copy Disk.\n6. 3½ Floppy (A:) will appear highlighted in both the Copy from: box and the Copy to: box.\n7. Then click on the Start button to initiate the Copy Disk process.\n8. Windows will tell you to insert the disk you want to copy from (source disk).\n9. Acknowledge this prompt by clicking on the OK button to initiate the copy process.\n10. A progress indicator bar will travel 50% across the screen while reading the source disk.\n11. Then Windows will prompt you to insert the disk you want to copy to (destination disk.)\n12. Place your destination disk into your floppy drive and click on the OK button to continue.\n13. The progress indicator will indicate that it is now writing to the destination disk.\n14. You will then receive notification stating that the Copy completed successfully.\n15. Then close all open windows to return back to your Windows session.
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Install a sound recording program in your PC eg: Cakewalk, Sound Forge etc...The cassette player needs to have access to Line Out. You need a single streo cable with stereo jacks at both the end ; one end of the cable has to be connected to the cassette player ..LINE OUT..and the other in the sound card of your PC...LINE IN. Open your sound recording software and specify the source of recording as LINE. This will enable the software to record whatever is being played in the audio casssette. Format of the recorded audio can be converted as required in *.wav or *.mp3 as per your choice.\n\nSound recording Softwares: \n* Cakewalk 8.0 or above\n* Sound Forge\n* mp3 to wav converter or vice versa\n\nTry downloading these softwares from Google
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Be sure to copy all files you need from your PC Desktop, MyDocuments, MyPictures,..etc. and the C: root directory because formating will destroy all files on drive C:\n\nI am not sure about the exact steps. I need to reinstall WindowsXP to write them to you.
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This is correct, there are several programs to do this. \n\nThe easiest program I've come across to just rip the movie to the hard drive (this is on PC's / Windows) is DVD Decrypter. It's harder to find now, but it's still out there on BetaNews.com, and it's very full featured. \n\nIf this is for backing up, you will likely run into the problem of the retail disc being a dual layer and your recorded media not being. A Free program called DVD Shrink (also on betanews.com) can fix this all for you and give you the flexibility to remove audio tracks you won't use or subtitles that don't apply to increase the video quality of the transfer.