Post #278668 by tikiwinebear on Sat, Jan 13, 2007 3:05 PM

A couple years ago, I decided to transfer my 80's music collection from cassettes to my computer (wav format). I found a software called Magix - Audio Cleaning Lab at my local Circuit City. I was able to plug my cassette deck into my computer and create wav files for all the songs from the cassettes. I then used Jukebox (or something similar) to convert the wav to mp3 (which the Magix software couldn't do.) It was relatively simple to perform, though it took a bit of time, since the cassette had to play the song at the regular speed as the computer was creating the file.

The Magix software is decently user friendly, and has modules for transferring from LP, cassette, or CD. There are features you can use to "clean" the recording as well. The cassettes that were recorded and sold by the record company came out very well. My home recordings from LP's or another cassette needed a little "cleaning", but came out very well for my home iPod and computer playing. Once I had my mp3 files on my computer, then I could import them to iTunes and transfer them to my iPod.

Hope this helps! Good Luck, Doug!

• Myke