cassette to CD conversion
How do I convert cassettes to cds on my imac 12.5.1
iMac, OS X 10.11
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Hi, ishopgal, it’s possible, but convoluted… you’d need a good quality cassette deck… then from RCA line out of cassette deck… to usb external sound card with either rca inputs or 3.5 mm stereo input… you can use 2 rca plug cable to 3.5 mm stereo plug.. then plug into the audio input of usb external sound card… which has to be connected to one of the usb sockets on your Mac while your iMac is turned off… turn it on, for audio input you’d have to choose usb audio… then you’d need software/app to capture audio… Audacity should work fine… it’s at www. audacityteam.org… start new thing in audacity… then choose recording source, in this case usb audio, load cassette into cassette deck and make sure it’s turned on, and that cassette is rewound to beginning.. also that heads on cassette deck are cleaned and demagnetized… then start recording in Audacity, and press “play” on cassette deck… you should see waves on audacity’s screen and see VU meter go up + down… showing you that audio is incoming and being recorded. Stop audacity recording when side one of cassette is done… load up side two of cassette and start new audacity recording… when done both, join first and second recording together for complete recording… then save whole thing as either .aiff or .wav… then get audio cd burning app ( there are some free ones out there) plus verbatim cd-r’s… ( good brand) point it to completed recording… tell it to burn audio CD, and it should do that… 4x burn speed should be OK… that’s it… for one cassette and one CD
john B