Does your sound card have a LINE IN socket? If not, you can get a USB sound box which almost certainly will. Connect your cassette deck to that socket, preferably using a player that has LINE OUT (rather than headphones only) such as a unit from a stackable system. Software such as Audacity will allow you to record it digitally, but make sure you're sampling settings are 44100Hz, 16 bits, stereo as this is the format used for a CD. Save from Audacity as WAV so no new artifacting is added to the sound from MP3 or ogg compression. Once burned to CD as audio, the WAVs can be converted to MP3 for a portable player, or FLAC for archival. FLAC is lossless, and will decompress to precisely the same as the original WAV. |
