Transfer Cassette to CD

The socket on your computer will probably be labeled 'Line In' - very often colour coded Blue and may have a symbol like the one to right.

Rear View of a Typical 'On Board' Soundcard

If you just want a simple way to transfer cassette to CD with no restoration or splitting the audio into tracks, then use your existing software to burn the file to CD then -

Try Audiotouch Lite (costs $16.95) The simplest interface ever. Once a couple of settings are made it's a 'one button' operation. You can also use this to record any audio running through your PC, like Internet Radio or a Microphone.

Audacity - FREE. A very good Audio Editor. Rather more complicated to use than Audiotouch though!

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If you want to transfer 'records' and cassette to CD with restoration and split the audio
into tracks then -

Once again there are many audio editors available, from free to costing thousands. Here's a good place to start for the DIY'er

Audacity - As mentioned earlier, a very good Free Audio Editor with built in restoration tools. I don't actually rate the audio restoration tools very highly as they aren't that effective and tend to add undesirable noises if even slightly over used. You can convert files to MP3 using Audacity but you will need to install 'LAME' Decoder.

Goldwave (Costs $49) is a fully featured audio editor with built in restoration tools. I haven't tried the restoration tools yet, but I'll let know when I have. You can convert files to MP3.

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If you want a dedicated Software Package that will Record, Restore and Burn to CD then -

There are quite a few to choose from although I've never come across free software in this category. Some are quite good, some are awful! Here are a couple which make a very good job for the money.

Steinberg Clean. This is very good, if you can get hold of a copy, but I think it has been dropped. Some suppliers are still advertising it at the time of writing this, plus of course there is always ebay.

Watch our NEW two part video of Spin It Again in action Hear the difference the Audio Cleaning Effects Make... - - Click the Images below to watch each video - - Don't forget to turn up your sound

ACOUSTICA SOFTWARE Spin It Again
I have evaluated this software and find it easy to use and follow. It even has a voice (which you can switch off!) to guide you through set up and operation.

Restoration tools with spin it again software is very effective (take a look at the videos) is very easy to use.

A great bonus with Spin It Again is that you can load an audio file into spin it again and convert it to MP3, OGG or WMA formats and to any 'quality' (file size) you choose, so you can transfer your LP's and Cassettes to your PC and convert them ready to use with your MP3 player or IPod.

Setting up the software is quite straight forward. 'Spin It Again' takes you through this process, plus it's well explained in their 'help' files. You can burn your transferred audio file to CD in a format that will play both on your computer and a normal home CD player. The process is all included in the wizard and is very easy to do.

There is also a CD label printing option so if you want to make a professional looking as well as sounding CD, use this option too.

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