I was wondering if I could make audio recording from cassettes. And if possible, what are the hardware(s) and software(s) I need? I found a software called audiograbber and I hope someone could tell me if I can use that program to make audio recording.

hello if you get music match juke box they have a trial verion. it has a good line in recording funtion so has roxio platinum 5 and you will need a sound card or onboard sound with line in capabilities. and to conect sterio to computer you will need a sterio 1/8" inch male pluging for computer and mostlikely two rca type male plugs for sterio and enogh strio wire to run two wires from computer to sterio.dont hock them to main speaker wires if you do you can blow computers sound system. use line out on sterio its a none amplified out put. if you have no line out than check at radio shack for a resitor set up to limet the out put from sterio have a nice day

CDex is a ripper,encoder and recorder and it's free.(mp3,ogg,wma,wav) www.cdex.n3.net

if there is no line out then use the headphone jack also if you have any recording software you can just use windows movie maker to record (xp)

How many cables do I actually need to make an audio recording from cassette? Would it work if I connect the mic jack of the stereo to the line in of the computer using RCA cable and proceed to make my audio recording using CDex or Musicmatch? And what format should I record it in? wav or mp3? I plan to burn the files onto a CD later.

You don't want to connect to the microphone jack of the stereo. What you want to look for is a pair of output RCA plugs on the back of the stereo. If you can't find these, you could use the headphone jack. If you go from the stereo's RCA plugs, then you need one cable that takes the red and white RCA plugs and goes to a 1/8" stereo minijack plug that will plug into the back of your computer's sound card. That will go in the line-in jack. If you don't have a line-in you could do microphone. If your stereo only had a minijack headphone plug and no output RCA plugs, then you just need a double-headed minijack cable to go from the stereo headphone jack to the sound card's line-in or microphone. If you plan to burn these to CD you should record them as WAV files. This will result in better quality. After you burn them to CD then you can compress them to mp3 for listening on your computer.

Once you have a line level signal, it needs to be digtised and recorded onto the computerŽs hard disk. Note that for a typical 40 minutes session, youŽll need about 500 Mb of disk space, and depending on what PC editor(s) you use, you might need another 500 Mb for temporary files. Count om needing about a gigabyte in total. The standard Sound Recorder utility that comes with Windows is not suitable for this task because it records to main RAM and only writes the results to hard disk when recording finishes. This means that recording time is limited by the amount of RAM in the PC, since 16 bit stereo at 44KHz uses about 10Mb per minute, thereŽs no way youŽll be able to record an entire LP or cassette side using Sound Recorder. What is needed is a utility that can record direct to the hard disk. There are a large number of such utilities avaiable as shareware. Some of them is: Wave Repair, CD Wave, CoolEdit and GoldWave. Here are some sites for more in-depht knowledge: http://www.goldwave.com http://www.syntrillium.com http://www.sonicfoundry.com http://www.steinberg.net http://www.crosswinds.net/_cdwave http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~abcomp/waverep.htm http://www.diamondcut.com http://www.coyotes.bc.ca http://www.algorithmix.com http://www.tracertek.com HTH