What's the best tape to transfer recordings on a Cassette tape to a CD? I dont' have a recording CD deck, all I have is my PC and CD burner and a stereo with casette player.

thanks.

 

Go to Radio Shack and get an adapter cable that converts the RCA outputs on your tape deck to an 1/8" stereo mini plug, like the one headphones have that you'd use with a walkman. That type of plug should plug in to your line input on your computer's sound card. Then get a program (does windows come with one?) to record with, tell it to use the line in as the input source, and you should be able to record whatever's coming off the tape as an audio file. Then burn those audio files to CD. The quality will obviously be tape quality at best but it should work.

 

For software, my friend (does home recording studio work) recommends Cakewalk. I have no experience with their software yet, but he recommended it as the best thing he's used in about 8 years and he does a LOT of recording.

 

Cakewalk is a music composition program, I think. What you need is a WAV file editor like Soundforge. That's what I use.

 

Cakewalk evidently also has a product to do just that. Like I said, I don't own it, but my friend does and has used it for converting some of his old music tapes onto the computer/CDs...

 

The two products he recommended were Pyro and CD Wave.