Recording old music from an audio tape to cd

[raguvun]

I have old audio cassettes that I have saved from past years. I would now like to transfer the discourses from the audio tapes(C90 etc) on to a cd. How can I do this using my pc. Some one told me that I should be able to do this using easy creator but I don't know how? I understand that the tape will be connected from a tape recorder and linked to the computer. Can somone help!!

[Ethel]

This can be done easily if you have the right cables and software - audacity is probably the best recording software for this, and it i free:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

This advises you on jacks and cables and so on:

http://www.delback.co.uk/pcaudiofaq.htm

And excellent tips here:

http://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Cassette-Tape- to-Computer

[Steve_ref]

This may not sound a cheap answer but it does work. Buy a stand alone CD rewriter (Sony RCD-W100 for example). Connect the red/white output from tape deck to red/white inputs of CD rewriter, connect rewriter to amp. Press play on tape deck and at same time press record on rewriter.
You may have to do some stop/start in order to seperate the tracks.
I've got my SKY+(via optical input), Surround Sound, Tape deck and laptop all connected (obviously with a switch box) to my Sony rewriter.
Hope this helps.
Oh and this way means I can burn tracks for nothing off of download sites.

[what..the?]

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[romko]

whatever you choose, keep the original tapes, chances are you may want to make another transfer in the future when current technology in its turn is 'obsolete' or if you lose your hard disk contents.

CD-rs are especially bad for archiving - i have many I recorded about 7 years ago which are nowunplayable, whereas 99 percent of my tapes going back to the 70s still play perfectly.