Convert your Old cassettes to MP3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay folk’s i stumbled upon this article when i was surfing the net for fun stuff to do,and then i thought you guys should know about this..its fairly simple

What You Need

To copy your tapes to your PC for digital archiving, you’ll need exactly three things:

• A cassette player. An old Walkman, which I found perfectly suited to the task, but you could also use a tape deck.
• Use the stereo patch cord to connect your cassette player and computer, inserting one end into the “Audio Out” or headphone jack of your stereo and one into the “Audio In” jack on your computer.

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• Audacity, an open-source, cross-platform program that makes simple work of recording and editing audio. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. If you plan to turn your tapes into MP3 files, make sure to get the LAME MP3 encoder as well; there’s a link to it on the Audacity download page. (.)

Getting Started

After installing Audacity, you’ll need to tweak a few settings. First, visit Preferences (accessible under the Edit menu) and make sure Channels is set to two. In the same window, hit the File Formats tab and configure Audacity for use with the LAME MP3 encoder you downloaded. Click the Find Library button, then navigate to the folder on your hard drive containing the file lame_enc.dll.
Finally, choose a bit rate for your recordings. 128Kbps is more than ample for audiobooks, but for music consider doubling it to 256Kbps.
Now it’s time to check your line-in connection and audio levels. Put a tape in your Walkman and start it playing; you should hear sound coming from your PC’s speakers. Click the input level meter and enable Start Monitoring to see a live meter. Then you can adjust the input volume using the slider to the rightKeeping in mind that your first recording may require some trial and error, rewind your tape to the beginning, press Record in Audacity, then start the tape. If it’s music, you needn’t record each song individually, starting and stopping your tape deck along the way. Instead, let Audacity record the whole side. Then, use the Selection tool to highlight a song (you’ll be able to tell where it ends by the few seconds of flatline, which indicate silence) and save the selection as an MP3 (or whatever file format you choose).

After you’ve saved your MP3s, you can use your favorite music manager (I recommend Media Monkey) to apply tags and add album art.
Now have fun!!!!!!!!