On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:04:36 -0000, "Serge Auckland"
wrote:

Yes, there are CD recorders made, but:

- You will still need the cassette recorder for playback
- Editing of the recorded audio is very difficult on a CD recorder
- Unless you record every track of a tape individually, you will end up with
a CD with two tracks, one for side 1 of the tape, one for side two.
This may be OK for you, but it can be inconvenient.

CD recorders are intended to provide an quick and easy recording facility,
where editing isn't required. They are not very popular due to their
limitations. The best advice I can give is always to use the best tool for
the job, and in this case it is a computer, sound card and editing software,
as Don suggested.

I'm more than happy tio take the advice but how do I physically record
the stuff from the tape on to the hard drive of my computer. My sound
card has six jack sockets: Center/bass jack (yellow); line-in jack
(pale blue); front-out jack (pale green); back surround jack (black);
microphone in rear jack (pink); side surround jack (white).

These are on an Elite PF88 Extreme Hybrid motherboard SiS656. Built in
audio system is a Realtek ALC 850.

I also have a good quality CD/DVD recorder on my computer.

Please, how do I connect the tape player to the sound card jacks and
do I need a special program to record the sound on to the hard drive
in digital form?

I am running Windows XP and the only sound software I have is the
Replay AV8 suite plus, of course, Windows Media Player.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

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Alasdair.

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:51:41 +0000, Alasdair
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:04:36 -0000, "Serge Auckland"
wrote:

Yes, there are CD recorders made, but:

- You will still need the cassette recorder for playback
- Editing of the recorded audio is very difficult on a CD recorder
- Unless you record every track of a tape individually, you will end up with
a CD with two tracks, one for side 1 of the tape, one for side two.
This may be OK for you, but it can be inconvenient.

CD recorders are intended to provide an quick and easy recording facility,
where editing isn't required. They are not very popular due to their
limitations. The best advice I can give is always to use the best tool for
the job, and in this case it is a computer, sound card and editing software,
as Don suggested.

I'm more than happy tio take the advice but how do I physically record
the stuff from the tape on to the hard drive of my computer. My sound
card has six jack sockets: Center/bass jack (yellow); line-in jack
(pale blue); front-out jack (pale green); back surround jack (black);
microphone in rear jack (pink); side surround jack (white).

These are on an Elite PF88 Extreme Hybrid motherboard SiS656. Built in
audio system is a Realtek ALC 850.

I also have a good quality CD/DVD recorder on my computer.

Please, how do I connect the tape player to the sound card jacks and
do I need a special program to record the sound on to the hard drive
in digital form?

I am running Windows XP and the only sound software I have is the
Replay AV8 suite plus, of course, Windows Media Player.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

You need to get a cable from the output socket of your cassette player
to the line in (pale blue) socket of the sound card. This may involve
some adaptors, but your local electronics shop will have all you need.

The programmes have already been dealt with in the thread - read back.

d

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