help i need a computer geek

[kendall]

dose anyone know if its possible to attach a cassette player to a computer. i would like to upload music from cassettes to the computer so i can burn them to cd. is this possible. help.

[KoopaTroopa]

http://www.ion-audio.com/tape2pc

Never tried cassettes to .mp3, but this thing looks easy to use. Not that expensive either.

[kendall]

http://www.ion-audio.com/tape2pc

Never tried cassettes to .mp3, but this thing looks easy to use. Not that expensive either.

thank-you very much. this looks like what i was looking for. instead of losing alot of great music, this could save it. thanks again

[foggysps]

I may have a better solution and it will not cost you $150
On your tape player or tape playing device do you have an audio OUT?

Connect the output of the cassette deck to the line input (NOT the mic input) of the soundcard.
You will probably need a cable with two phono plugs on one end and a stereo mini-jack on the other. Phono plugs (also known as RCA plugs or Cinch plugs) have a thin centre pin and a surrounding ring about 1/4" (6mm) diameter. Stereo mini-jacks look like the plug on a pair of headphones used with a Walkman. Most audio stores sell cables like this; they are primarily designed to connect the output of a Walkman into a home stereo system.

Bring up the Windows Volume Control utility, select the Recording screen, and make sure the line input is selected. For a more detailed discussion of the Volume Control utility, see here.

Use a suitable hard disk recording package (such as CoolEdit, GoldWave, etc) to record. Use the slider on the Volume Control utility's Recording screen to adjust the record level. Some hard disk recording packages may have their own record level slider, in which case it might be more convenient to use that.
If you intend to write the results to a CDR, use WAV format, 16bit, stereo, 44.1kHz. Some recording packages describe this as "CD Quality".

Hope this helps