My partner has started playing my Feadog, using the instruction book that came with it. It also came with a cassette (I’ve had it for quite a while). It would be easier for her to have the tunes on a CD. I do have a CD “burner” in my PC. Does anyone have the faintest idea how to go about copying tunes from a cassette to a CD in a way that they can be played on regular CD players? (I’ve read about digitizing them, but I think they would then have to be played on a computer.)
TIA,
TK
CDs -are- digital, so first you have to digitize… line out of tape-player to line-in of computer, record the tape, and probably you want to compress to mp3 (then you can keep it on the computer as well as on a CD), then you need to burn a CD… most CD burning software should take a list of input mp3’s and burn a standard audio cd.
Of course, I’m a Linux user so I don’t have any specific recommendations… but in general, you need to get digitized music on the computer, format it for audio CD, and burn it onto the disc. I do this buy building an audio cd image and then burning that onto the disc, but windows software I’ve seen does this pretty transparently… just be careful that you’re creating an audio CD and not a data CD… (of course, mp3 players will take a data CD with mp3s on it…)
If you can’t record a whole tape due to diskspace concerns, you can break it up into arbitrary (or planned) tracks, and it should be fine. Each mp3 usually ends up being a track, unless you tell the burning software to do otherwise.
–Chris
Heya,
That’s quite easy. First of all, you need a software that can record from the line in input. The media recorded in Windows, or something like Goldwave would do the job. You then record the whole tape into a big .wav file. After that, all you need is a software that can burn a CD from your .wav file you created. It could be one big track, or you could separate the .wav file into one .wav file for each tune. Most burning software will let you create an audio CD from .wav files. So, to make it simple:
Good luck!
Thanks! I’ll try it later tonight.
This one invloves jumping through a few hoops but is worthwhile.
You will need a tape player with either a line output (on phono plugs) or one with a headphone socket.
Connect your tape deck to the line in socket on your computer soundcard. Check out instructions, but on Creative cards this is usually a blue socket. Depending on what type of output you have on the tape deck you will either need a dual phono to stereo mini jack lead or a stereo jack to mini jack lead!
Once connected to your computer you need to record the music off the tape onto the computer’s hard drive as an audio file. The best thing to use is audio recording software such as Goldwave.
When doing this you will need to bring up your soundcard software ‘mixer’ - usually by double clicking on an icon on the task bar at the bottom RH of the screen.
On this screen bring up the level that says line input or similar. Next you need to pick line input as the recording source by going into the properties menu, picking recording properties and then selecting this input to record (usually by ticking a box)
Assuming you have everything set up OK, in the audio software pick File > New > Stereo. When you press play on the tape deck and record on the software you should end up with a graphical waveform on the screen (in two halves of left signal and right signal).
When done, save the file (should be .wav format). After that you can fairly easily edit the wave by selecting parts and cutting, fading in/out etc. and then save again.
Finally in the CD burning software pick to produce an audio CD and drop the appropriate .wav files onto your CD layout. Then write the CD at about 2-4 write speed.
Despite sounding really involved it’s something that is really EASY to do when you know how so don’t despair!
Shout if you need any more help!
Barry
Sorry everyone about the long post and repeating things that you’d already said!
There were no replies at first, but when I’d finished there were 4!!
Barry
There is a nice little program call RIP Vinyl, I think for Rest In Peace 
that is designed to handle just this task:
http://www.wieser.clara.net/ripvinyl/index.htm
It sells for GBP5 or about US$7… Works well.
Also, if you save them on your computer as .wav files, you can later compress them into MP3 files as well. I’ve found a lot of stuff that I liked, and compressed it to MP3 so that I could use it with a portable MP3 player (Such as RIO, or others.)
The only problem with MP3 is you lose some of the “edges” during the compression. I’ve never been able to tell the difference, but my uncle (HUGE audiophile with a really nice Carver system) can tell the difference.
Aodhan