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Questions tagged [cassette]

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Convert a cassette tape recording to digital format

Has anyone been successful with transferring audio cassette tape recordings to a digital format? I would like to preserve old cassette tape recordings of my grandparents to some digital format: MP3, WAV, etc... The quality of the tapes are…
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How can I make an actual compact cassette "tape" mix-tape from iTunes?

I want to make an actual compact cassette mix-tape as a gift for someone. I use iTunes to manage all of my music. So a few questions: If I gather a bunch of songs on a playlist for sides A/B of the tape, how can I ensure that the volume for all…
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Converting hundreds of tapes to MP3

I know that devices exist which can convert cassette tapes into MP3s via USB. I have hundreds of tapes which I'd like to convert. Are there any devices which can do this in a batch style - i.e. put in multiple cassettes, start it running, and come…
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Digitizing audio cassettes

I am looking for a freeware equivalent to Adobe Audition software i.e. a software for digitizing audio cassettes. Please suggest some.
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Can I save a file into a cassette tape? How?

Suppose I have a rather small file, containing.. a photograph of a... llama. And I am very paranoid of people copying my llama photo, so I decide to store it in something inconspicuous like a cassette tape. I trust people wouldn't be able to open my…
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Trying to record from cassette player to Audacity on laptop, using headset jack, with dual band cable, but no sound reaches Audacity

I am trying to get a digital copy of some cassettes using an HP laptop. I have tried pressing play on the cassette player, to record on Audacity, but Audacity does not show any sound. Initially I used an audio cable with 2 black bands on the…
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Android media playback - mp3 (and ogg) sound is distorted from phone speakers

I have lately been converting audio cassettes to digital sound, using Audacity. I am successful with many of them, but I encounter a peculiar problem during some of these conversions, that no web search has helped me to counter. Specifically, when…
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Making a cassette tape using itunes or mp3

I have watched videos about how to do this, read about it as well. I have headphone input cable which ends with two RCA cables. I insert this on the computer headphone and lineout (EXT) outlets on the cassette deck, set the player to EXT whereby I…
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Can the data on my hard drive be affected by being stored next to tape cassettes?

I stored my portable external hard drives next to some tape cassettes. I believe hard drives are meant to last an average of five years but some of my files which were perfectly fine before became corrupted and unreadable. I've had the hard drives…
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