I have voice and music casette tapes that I would like to convert to cd's. What would be the best way to do this? I have onboard sound and would probably need to get a sound card. I currently use Roxio for my burner. I haven't any problems with copying cd's to cd's. The software should be able to define tracks with the voice casettes to create chapters on the cd. I would like to make them similar to chapters in a book. thanks

Onboard sound should be fine, as long as you have a line-in jack. There's no need for a second sound card. Copying tapes or records or anything of the sort to CD is an arduous task, because the tapes must be played into the computer in real time. i.e. if you have 100 hours of stuff on tapes, it's going to take 100 hours to play the content into your computer. Anyway, what you want to do is connect your tape recorder's output to your sound cards line-in jack, using a patch cable...just a cable with the 1/8" plugs at both ends. You can pick them up at Radio Shack for next to nothing. Use a sound recording program of some sort to record the audio from the tapes. I am partial to Sound Forge. XP has a built-in sound recorder as well, but it's not so great. Take the .wav files that are created in the sound recording program and save them to disk. Then just create an audio CD like you normally would, using those .wav files. -=Bryan=-

http://computing.net/office/wwwboard/forum/215.html However, the way described requires you to play the tape in real time and manually start/stop the recording for each track.

A very useful and cheap program to use is RipVinyl available at:- www.ripvinyl.com Although primarily aimed at helping you to rip tracks from LPs it will also work with cassette tapes too.

Be advised, you are not going to have the quality digital sound you are used to hearing on your computer. You are just not going to achieve it from those cassettes.

Utilizing MusicMatch with their equalizer and DFX sound-enhancement has allowed me to make near-cd quality cds from my cassette tapes. The end result is actually better than the original tapes! You can create either MP3 files or wave, depending on your needs.

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