My computer, like most, has "audio in" jack in back. How do you record music from external source, such as tape deck? The goal is to consolidate old tapes to new cd. Do I need a new, external toy to convert, or what?

Thanks
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You will want to plug it into the Audio In, then in Volume Control, you
will want to unmute Auxiliary In. Then you should be able to use
recorder or just about any program you want to record from that source.

Nathan McNulty


Wild Bill wrote:
> My computer, like most, has "audio in" jack in back. How do you record music from external source, such as tape deck? The goal is to consolidate old tapes to new cd. Do I need a new, external toy to convert, or what?
>
> Thanks

Not so much a toy (hardware). But you might have to consider a good sound
application to record sound from the auxilliary-in jack. Then, depending on
the tool, you'll have to decide what exact format you're going to convert
those files to. Initially, they'll probably be recorded as .wav files. But
those are huge and take up tons of disk space, so something to convert the
..wav to say, and MP3 would be best. If you want to actually create a real
audio 'cd', ie not a computer data disk with MP3's on it, but a true Audio
CD (redbook audio, I think it's called) then yet another tool might be
required. Unfortunately, I know of no such tool, but only because I've
never looked for one. My guess is they do exist, the only barrier might be
price.

Paul

"Wild Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My computer, like most, has "audio in" jack in back. How do you record
music from external source, such as tape deck? The goal is to consolidate
old tapes to new cd. Do I need a new, external toy to convert, or what?
>
> Thanks
> --
> ass-u-me

Wild Bill wrote:

>My computer, like most, has "audio in" jack in back. How do you record music from external source, such as tape deck? The goal is to consolidate old tapes to new cd. Do I need a new, external toy to convert, or what?

You really need something that can read the incoming stream of audio and
convert it to WAV files that you can then burn to CD. The one I use is
CD Wave, from www.cdwave.com (Shareware, $15 to register). This will
record the stream and is then convenient for top and tailing and
splitting into tracks (and leaving bits out)

Once done either a third party burning suite or Windows Media player
will handle burning the CDs. (Remember to use CD-R, not RW disks - most
regular CD players don't copy with RW)



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