cassette music to mp3 player

This can be a bit of a process.

Have a look here http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/news/1316/

and do a google on "Cassette to MP3" and find the way that suits you best out of all of them.

I found when doing my LPs that by the time I had got the recording levels right, and done the despeckles, depopping, removal of background noise, normalising,etc, that I never wanted to hear the bloody things again! If you are going to do it, might as well do it properly. With tapes as the source, you don't have the crackle and pop, but you will have the hiss and background noise to remove.

I would seriously advise buying any of your tapes that are available on CD and save yourself a lot of time.

Hi sepp5762

The website recommened by Gerhardp1 above covers it pretty well.

My only suggestions:
(1) I recommend GOLDWAVE rather than COOLEDIT. (www.goldwave.com)

(2) If the cassettes are home made copied from vinyls - and you still have the vinyls - you will get better quality by copying direct from vinyl

Sepp
This is a very slow process and the result is likely to be disappointing.
Another option is to download Limewire and then find the tracks you really want to take with you. You've already paid for music when you bought the cassettes so you're not ripping anyone off or anything :-)

Another programme you may like to look at is ripvinyl
www.ripvinyl.com

I use Musicmatch to do mine but then I also do CD to CD. I have a cassett player conected to my PC and it is quite a simple job to put them onto the hard drive but as a previous writer wrote, it is a long process as you have to play the cassett for it's full length and if you want to edit individual tracks it takes even longer. Patients is the name of the game but as a previous writer stated, you may be better downloading straight from the net but then again I do not know how your PC is set up or what equipment you have.

I can't remember if its the same here as in the UK but if you own the original then you can legally have it on mp3 so just download them all. Would be a heck of a lot faster and a heck of a lot less grief.

just download em from kazaa and similar programs. thats how I got my 15,000 MP3's