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[r1]

ive got the day off today and the place to myself so having a me day,thought id clean the garage a bit and then this afternoon catch up on some films[thanks tunnie]
well I found a box with some old tapes and thought id have a listen but then reliased that I  don't have anything to play them on now 
so is there something I can buy to transfer them to cd don't want to spend hundreds to transfer half a dozen tapes but am open to all ideas[apart from throwing away that old 70s rubbish]
thanks

[tunnie]

ive got the day off today and the place to myself so having a me day,thought id clean the garage a bit and then this afternoon catch up on some films[thanks tunnie]
well I found a box with some old tapes and thought id have a listen but then reliased that I  don't have anything to play them on now 
so is there something I can buy to transfer them to cd don't want to spend hundreds to transfer half a dozen tapes but am open to all ideas[apart from throwing away that old 70s rubbish]
thanks

No probs 

We talking VHS tapes or audio cassettes?

[biggriffin]

Ive got a ccr600 in my estate,that has a tape deck,proper car hifi,does radio and them new fangulled cd thingys

[r1]

ah sorry audio as in cassette tapes

[Rog]

ah sorry audio as in cassette tapes

Find your nearest branch of FOPP records that is still open and buy the CDs

Problem is that tape quality was never that good in the first place. Even if you found a tape player with an audio output, and then played into a computer, and then burned to CD, the tapes would probably sound crap. Just not worth it. Sorry

[scimmy_man]

you can buy a tape to computer recorder from the bay of E

[Figureman52]

Done a few for myself. Couldn't distinguish any difference in quality between the original tapes and the CD's

[Vamps]

I thought Cassette tapes and Vinyl were both coming back........

[omega3000]

I thought Cassette tapes and Vinyl were both coming back........

Whats a CD  Still using the RadioGram

[Olympia5776]

I bought a tape to PC transfer kit from Lidl recently with the intentions of slowly transfering the many tapes I have to PC/MP3 .
Did two tapes packaged the kit back up and promptly returned it .
The sound quality was abysmal, maybe unique to that player but not worth the effort.
Conversely I've transferred loads of vinyl onto my PC and then sync'd it to MP3 with great results .

[AndyRoid]

so is there something I can buy to transfer them to cd

If you can obtain any kind of playback device (eg, tape deck, Walkman, etc), simply connect the output from that to the "Line In" on your PC and use something like Audacity to record the tapes and save them as WAV files and then burn to CD.

[SIR Philbutt]

I thought of doing this once with the tapes I made using the pause button method.

Realised that could get compilation cd's (cheap or borrowed) and also download free when available on peer2peer everything I needed in the best audio quality as poss

About 10 tapes now done (bit by bit over the last 6 months) for about £30 in all. About 4 to go but I think I already have about 50% of them

HTH
P

edit - having a ccr helps so i know whats on the tapes

[dbug]

so is there something I can buy to transfer them to cd

If you can obtain any kind of playback device (eg, tape deck, Walkman, etc), simply connect the output from that to the "Line In" on your PC and use something like Audacity to record the tapes and save them as WAV files and then burn to CD.

Yep Audacity is great software - will remove all tape "hiss". 

[r1]

well this has taken a back seat until today when I visted aldi and say a cassette type machine that just plugs into your computer. just hopes it works better than the lidle one that was tried before,but if it isn't I have 60 days to return it[and you can convert a lot of tapes in 60 days so could be like free softwear  ]

[Kevin Wood]

I thought Cassette tapes and Vinyl were both coming back........

Vinyl never really went away among Hi-Fi enthusiasts. Cassettes did. Let's hope they never come back.

You get the odd enthusiast into Reel to Reel tape, but there's little point other than nostalgia, IMHO, when you can store as much music as you can eat, in perfect quality, on a hard drive.