Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

You have a lot of Audacity, what with your do-it-yourself attitude, and cooler than thou 8-Tracks!

Actually, Audacity is the free program you’ll want to convert sound on your LP, 8-track, or audio cassette tapes into digital MP3s or Compact Discs.

That’s the audio program I use to record from audio tape, or edit audio files.

Find a wire that goes from your tape player headphone, to the computer mic input (which is usually pink).
Your dollar store may have one.

[Optionally, and for best results, check your computer’s sound setting so that the microphone is selected as the audio input.]

You press record on Audacity, then Play on the tape player and should see a large, but not flat-topped, audio wave appear on the screen. Test how you’re doing by stopping after one minute, saving the file to your computer, then open the sound file to listen on the computer. If there’s a problem, adjust the volume on the tape player to a mid level or different level. Experiment, see what volume sounds best. You also can try using the Line In jack instead of the Microphone jack.

STEP 2
Record the newly saved sound file of the tape, onto your AUDIO CD for use in all CD players. If you make MP3 files, you can make an MP3 CD which stores ~740 minutes instead of just 74 minutes like an Audio CD. MP3 CDs only work in new CD-MP3 players, DVDs, and computers.

STEP 3
Enjoy your new CD.

STEP 4 (optional)
Thank me for giving you these instructions if you found them useful.

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