Transferring Music from Casette to PC

[DRD]

Does anyone know a good way of transferring old music to a PC please ?

Ideally in a format that allows you to jump to the track you want, rather than having to "fast forward" it

I have a suitable lead that plugs into the Mic socket on my laptop

Thank you

 

[MartinY]

You could just record the whole track and then cut it using pretty much any basic editor into different tracks.

Sounds quality is likely to be poor though from cassette. Is it not available elsewhere in digital? Or is it personal stuff?

 

[DRD]

It is just old stuff that is not available online/ apple music etc

Do you know the names of suitable software to both record it and then edit it pls ?

 

[Arv]

Whats the old stuff, everything is on the internet

 

[DRD]

Live bootlegs from the 80s.

 

[Epotech]

Just record it as a single track using Audacity and then cut it up into tracks and save them as mp3 (or whatever).

 

[Poibug]

Just record it as a single track using Audacity and then cut it up into tracks and save them as mp3 (or whatever).

That's exactly what I have done in the past

 

[insx]

Record the audio input with what you have or if you have a lot to do, you can get a USB cassette player that I think comes with software to automate things.

 

[BigIan]

Mp3cut.net

 

[strobey]

Don't use the mic input, get a decent USB capture device, a decent tape deck and then save in PCM using Audacity. Afterwards, convet the WAV to FLAC (lossless) to compress.

Do it once and do it right would be my advice!

Or, if it's unimportant, just get this... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q4P7RCJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_j2ypDbMHMXH7B

Tim

 

[DRD]

Where is a safe place to download audacity from pls. I don't want to download a virus or whatever

Sorry if a daft question but there are a few online sites that seem connected to audacity

 

[strobey]

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