Tapes (from 1980s)-to CD-or iTunes transfer question?

This isn't too hard, if you have the patience and hard drive space.

You'll need:
* a tape player with an earphone jack -- preferably one with auto-flip
* a Griffin iMic
* a patch cord
* SoundStudio (it came with an older version of OS X that I have; not sure if it does now), or that app that comes with the Griffin iMic that I'm blanking on now

You'll do:
1) plug one end of the patch cord into the iMic. Plug the other end into the earphone.
2) hit record in SoundStudio.
3) hit play and make sure it's not too loud
4) when the tape has stopped, hit stop
5) save the file as a .aiff or .wav
6) import into iTunes and convert to MP3.

Ta-da!

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You got that right, Phyllis!! I'm not young enough to understand 1 word of this, but thanks anyway, Lizzie.

Well, I guess it would be quite costly. I have many other obligations financially. I don't know how to download for free....

here's one thing that's true (feeling old myself).

google rocks. or any search engine.

if you have any question about how to do anything--really--google it.

i used to be a computer geek, but my cpu got shut down by malware. i couldn't figure it out. but i google'd it until i got rid of it myself.

if you're overseas, and someone steals your wallet, just google what to do, and somewhere on the internet is exactly what you need to do.

really--you couldn't do that 10 years ago! i think that's amazing.

here's on example i came up with googling "transfer tapes to digital." i know it's complex, but search around until you find something you like.

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7597_102-0.html?threadID=30725

There's a cable you can buy for $5.00 at Best Buy that goes from your tape player to your computer. It transfers the music right to your media player.

It's actually really easy, but I will tell you that I did that for a couple of my cassettes and they sounded like crap.
Of course the tape (the OBCR of Doonesbury) didn't have great sound to begin with.

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I had some personal recordings on tape that I wanted digitally. I sent them to a place in CA that turned them around really fast...it was great, and not too expensive. I'll try to find the company. There was a place in NYC that will turn vinyl into digital as well...

http://www.muziboo.com/doodlenyc/music/i-dreamed-a-dream/

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Yep, mine were Mac-specific (note capitalization). I've never tried it on a PC.

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