How to transfer a Cassette Tape to MP3 on your computer using Audacity. 

My dad wrote and recorded hundreds of beautiful songs on cassettes. He just passed away and I want to share his music. I got a cassete player I'm going to digitize all of his music and post it onto youtube and other platforms. I'm hearing songs I've never heard him singing before. Thank you so much for helping me share his music.

This is a great service to humanity, my friend. Thanks so much, you rock!

Finally Some one who goes slow enough for a new person trying to capture cd tapes.

Awesome choice of source material if I may say so!!! First time ever hearing someone use Maiden for a tutorial. Good work, Sir!

Thanks for this. The 'instructions' that came with my device were hopeless. This was super helpful, even if some things are not quite the same in my version. I now have music files on my computer, due to this film and the one on separating song files linked below. Cheers!

Brad Thank you so much for putting a Amazon link in for the converter. These converters seem to have became harder to find.

Thank you for the helpful presentation.

Thank You. Clearly presented.

Thank you for sharing! Saved my sanity!

Great, work's, & explaination, thank"'

Excellent video. I've got a big box full of cassettes I want to preserve. Your info will be extremely helpful in doing that. Thanks.

This was great. Thanks.

A bit of a problem: I can't adjust the input. At 0:32 you clicked a drop-down menu next to the microphone. My software doesn't have anything in the drop-down menu next to the microphone. Also, my software doesn't look like yours. Maybe I have an older version. (2.0.0 Unicode?) It has round control buttons (play, stop record, etc) yours are square if that tells you anything. Also, when I hit "record", I get an error message, "Error while opening the sound device. Please check the input device and the project sample rate." I found a sample rate adjustment but not an input device adjustment. Little help?

I've connected my cassette deck to the laptop and Audacity is picking up the signal. Problem is, when I click on record, I get less than a second of recording and then it stops. Any idea what is causing this?

Nice! I've done this with many of my LPs. Did I miss it, or did you decide not to go into splitting the recording into separate songs (and labeling them)?

Thank you for posting this. I just got all the stuff I need to start digitizing my tapes. In your video, it looks as if the bottom track kind of gets blown out at the end. Is the sound affected as well, or is that just some visual weirdness? I also just saw IM in early September in Portland!

Hi how good can I get a cassette tape to sound in your view, would the hissing go away at times yes

You're a master teacher. Not too slow, not too fast, and a calming voice. Many thanks.

How do I get the USB audio mic tab? It does not show on my audacity.

I dont need a Behriner interface if I use the sound card from my computer tower right ? It has a "Line in", "Microphone" and "Line out" connection

Hey...I am plugging my tape outputs into my audio interface inputs but I still get no sound when I play back the cassette deck. But the audio records. Any tips how to fix this?

Nice work , I have a problem that I want to capture audio from cassette , and I connected phone with solo jack to separate rca connected to I/O interface , then usb to pc ,,, but it is only capture the L channel . Why ? It recorded L channel and make it a stereo “ left and right “ same sound which L channel . And left channel has low music bot like R channel . What is problem and how to record them L and R separately

Is there a way to record the whole thing but cut it up so it exports as multiple recordings so when I put them on itunes itll be the whole album with example song #1 #2 #3 etc

Where is the MP3 part as you named in the title?

How do you set Audacity to detect the silence between tracks and create EACH SONG as it's own individual recording, so you don't have to spend hours manually splitting and saving the songs individually after the full album/cassette is recorded?

I have audio cassette with talking on them from radio stations in the 80s that'd I want to make so I can put on a USB or a cd 💿

May I ask which cables you use for this?

No need for any audio interface. You can do it with the Audocity and an EP to EP cable.

Thanks for doing this. However, it would be very helpful to tell us what to do if things don't work the way they did for you. For example, doesn't seem to recognize my microphone. Doesn't show option. Or tell us when things don't look like they do on your system, what might happening. "If your system isn't doing xyz, then maybe ABC is occurring.

Do I need that interface if I’m transferring from an OG tape deck like a tascan? Audacity won’t recognize my tape deck it seems the interface is the solution

Why cant I choose the core audio and codec, its not showing as an option

Most important, how did you connect the cassette to the computer?

I just bought the Behringer UM2. I can't seem to download the driver; I only get ads for driver updates. I want to transfer audio cassettes to computer. Tape player outputs are RCA connectors. Seems the other end of the RCA connectors only could go to the OUTPUT ports on the UM2. I need RCA out from tape deck to RCA in to the audio interface to USB to computer. Can you explain how to set the UM2 for this purpose?Thanks.

All my cassette players were built in the 1980s. I don't see any way to connect them to my computer so I can begin converting audio tapes to digital files. Is there an adapter I can buy that plugs into my old Sony cassette tape deck? The only options I've seen are the cheap cassette converters sold by Amazon, but they tend to have QC issues, not the least of which is introducing added noise.

You left something out. What did you leave out that is important? .......I will follow up......later.....thanks! John

Like to your video very basis. Thank you. I'm having trouble using the cassette to load the music to my computer. I have Mac computer. The error I'm getting is 9997 invalid sample rate: It said "make sure that you have matched the sample rate in Audacity with that set on your device = both for playback and recording. How do I go about it to match the sample rate in Audacity with that set on my device? I do not know how to fix this problem. Thank you.

I'm sitting on over 200 8-tracks and I'd love to digitize them (most) all. (Not a big fan of Polish Polka, but when you buy the lot... well...) And who the hell is this Humperdink guy?

Oh it’s iron maiden maiden japan

Is that iron maidens first album?

most commercial tapes are not worth converting, just buy them cheaply in high quality from the streaming services. Where this comes to play is for all those self-made recordings you want to save.

How about answering some of the questions below .I see there are quite a few but your lack of answering them really bother me to how good of a teacher you may not be

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