I bought 2 country music tapes off ebay so I could listen to them in my car, who knew my new car would not have a tape player but a nice cd player! How do I transfer the music on to cd? I wanted these tapes, now I would like to listen to them in the car but can't. man what a week!

You'll need a CD writer, which your computer probably has if it's relatively recent. You'll need audio conversion software, which usually comes with the CD writer. And you'll need a cassette player and cables to connect the "line out" from the player to the "line in" on your computer's sound card. Check with your local Radio Shack for that.

Connect the "line out" on the cassette player to the "line in" on the PC, fire up your audio conversion software, and hit Play on the cassette player. It will take some manual fiddling to get the individual tracks.

I think there are CD/cassette combo players that will copy from cassette to CD.

it might be cheaper/easier for you to just to buy the cd versions of the albums.

It will take some manual fiddling to get the individual tracks.
If you do a little searching around on the internet you could probably find an audio capture utility that will automatically create the tracks for you. But if a song has a silent part in the middle it may split the track. So, again, more fiddling.

yikes, these all seem to much trouble. I think I will just look for the cd's:rolleyes: after trying to find these in tapes, oh my! Now if only I can affordthat set of oldies doo wop!

love oldies!

I use a shareware tool called "Audiograbber." It is real cool as I usually set it up to listen for breaks in the music. That way, it automaticly creates different tracks for you ready for burning. Just watch the sound levels - too much is way bad!

Same thing happened to me, Karla. I just bought a little battery operated tape player to keep in my car...cost me maybe $20 brand new.

yikes, these all seem to much trouble. I think I will just look for the cd's after trying to find these in tapes, oh my! Now if only I can affordthat set of oldies doo wop!

love oldies!

Ebay is your friend :)

Target has a great display of oldies compilations.

Also, if you transfer analog sound from old tapes to digital you can loose a lot of sound quality. It's best to start a new CD collection. And yes, eBay is great for that. If you buy cds used I suggest getting one of those disc doctor kits to resurface scratched disks, they work pretty well for minor scratching. Hopefully no one would sell you a completely ruined CD (check their feedback first).

In my experience, most of the do-it-yourself stuff just sounds awful. I've been searching for someone with a cd-burner/tape unit for a while, so I can preserve my rapidly-deteriorating copy of the world premier of my first symphony :-p