Yoho.
Found a stack of old cassettes - some good stuff in there with the mass of crap - and decided to try turning it into MP3s. Found a method that worked:
- Cassette player with headphone capability
- Headphone jack (double male)
- Laptop
- Freecorder (Firefox extension)
Freecorder records anything going through your speakers and saves it as an MP3 file.
So far only got through one side of a tape because you have to play it and wait and listen for when the track changes to switch files etc, so it's a slow process. But the quality is good.
I played it in at low volume from the cassette player, to reduce noise, and then played it at a loud volume on my laptop, as freecorder would record at whatever volume went through the speakers not from the cassette. This left a very high quality recording as opposed to keeping both the same volume.
Found a stack of old cassettes - some good stuff in there with the mass of crap - and decided to try turning it into MP3s. Found a method that worked:
- Cassette player with headphone capability
- Headphone jack (double male)
- Laptop
- Freecorder (Firefox extension)
Freecorder records anything going through your speakers and saves it as an MP3 file.
So far only got through one side of a tape because you have to play it and wait and listen for when the track changes to switch files etc, so it's a slow process. But the quality is good.
I played it in at low volume from the cassette player, to reduce noise, and then played it at a loud volume on my laptop, as freecorder would record at whatever volume went through the speakers not from the cassette. This left a very high quality recording as opposed to keeping both the same volume.