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Does anyone know how to do this, convert cassette tape recording to DVD? The reason behind why is because that I want to upload a legendary prank tape my mates friend did when I was at school. Let's say it's a hardcore version of Fonejacker but funnier. Any help would be welcome.

Can't say I've ever looked into this as audio quality is dire normally from old tapes...

As long as you have something to play the cassette in (actually you can attribute this to any sound source) and an output jack then just wire it to your mic/line-in socket and record using any of the myriad pieces of recording software out there (Audacity is a popular free choice)

A headphone to 2 rgb lead is the easiest way to do it straight from the cassette deck to a dvd recorder. When you play the dvd back you'll get the sound with a blank screen. The leads cost about a fiver from most electrical stores(curry's and comet don't sell them though). I swapped most of mine on to cd using a liteon 5006 cd/dvd recorder there's one on ebay.co.uk for £25 at the moment and this works exactly the same - headphone to 2rgb but using rewriteable cd's instead of dvd. You can also plug into your computers headphone and record streaming audio. Hope this makes sense.

Thanks guys for your help, I'll get on it.

m100 Wrote:A headphone to 2 rgb lead is the easiest way to do it straight from the cassette deck to a dvd recorder. When you play the dvd back you'll get the sound with a blank screen. The leads cost about a fiver from most electrical stores(curry's and comet don't sell them though). I swapped most of mine on to cd using a liteon 5006 cd/dvd recorder there's one on ebay.co.uk for £25 at the moment and this works exactly the same - headphone to 2rgb but using rewriteable cd's instead of dvd. You can also plug into your computers headphone and record streaming audio. Hope this makes sense.

Actually never thought about using a PVR/DVD-Recorder. Yeah It'll work, but you'll not be able to trim the start and end points the the recording and it'll take more space on the disc as it'll be encoding it as a video source.

Oh one other point either way. Check what connections you have for connecting either end if you need to buy cabling as although the 3.5mm stereo TRS is fairly common for cheap audio connections now back in the days of tape it wasn't and your output connection could vary.
Looking at my own various bits lying dormant that have tape I have only one that takes 3.5mm stereo TRS with my other connection options being 6.3mm TRS, RCA, 5pin DIN and bare wire!
Check here if you aren't sure what you have

I just transfer mine to an SD flash card

Guys, this is some fantastic info. Thanks for all your help.

To be honest my way of doing it is about 5/6 years old. It works for me but then all i'm transferring is loads and loads of old concert recordings and it's a very long job but they don't need editing etc anyway.

I take it you mean cassette as in audio?ION make a USB cassette player.I have their VHS USB & Vinyl converter both of which work well.Haven't got their cassette USB as I have a SONY gigajuke HiFi which can record from exterior sound source straight on to a hard drive which can then be trasnferred onto anything else(iPOD,portable Hard Drive etc)

ive got a toshiba video/dvd recorder but it was nearly £200