Break Away II

Cassette Tapes have been wide replaced by the CDs and for lots of people, MP3 files are perfect data format as Mp3 Files provide great sound quality and aims lesser space on your hard disk or CD. I really don’t need to say anything about the popularity of Mp3 files. This data format is highly popular and supported by almost all portable devices like iPod, iRiver, Creative Zen, Mobile phones etc..

They`re a great idea to convert your Tapes to Mp3 files or CD. These method you can keep up your records as well as carry your favourite music anyplace with you.

Converting Tapes To Mp3 implies, you want to record your tapes into your computer. It`s very easy and now let me tell you how to convert audio cassettes tapes to Mp3 data format with no plagues. Please do these matters bit by bit and there is no ways you’ll face any problems :-

1. First of all, you want a recording software system to record from your cassette player. You could use Windows Sound Recorder but unfortunately, it doesn’t support recordings bigger than 1 minute. So, practically Windows Sound Record is of no use If you would like to use it for recording audio cassettes into Mp3 data format. There are other software available for this purpose and I’ll discuss this later in the article.

2. You need to connect Headphone out (or Line Out) jack of your tape player to Line In jack of your computer’s sound card with a Stereo to Stereo cable having 1/8″ plug away on each end. Invite these cable at Radio Shack or nearby hardware stores. You should get this cable very well and cheap. These cable will act as a medium of transferring audio data from your tape player to your computer’s sound card.

3. Run the recording software and select “Line In” recording source and start recording the output of cassette player. You`ll be abel to also monitor the recording.

4. When the recording is done, break off the files so that You can get a separate file for an individual song. If you save the whole file, all the tracks will be in one file and you’ll face problem when you’ll want to hear a particular song. You won’t be able to walk between different songs so be sure to break up the recorded file while converting cassette tapes to mp3.

5. After breaking the file into individual songs, You will be able to either burn an Audio CD or an MP3 CD. You can also just save MP3 on your hard disk and transfer them to a player of your choice.

Delight note that MP3 data format is a compressed data format and make sure that you use higher bit rates to save the recorded file. Higher bit rates will save the resultant mp3 file in excellent quality.

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