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Mrs. Try has dozens of cassettes from the 80’s
The following is based on my experiences:
Prerequisites-
A stereo patch cord (can be purchased at Radio Shack)
A computer with a stereo sound card
I have a software package from Nero which I use in video editing and includes a .wav editor as well.
Start the program, plug the patch cord into the cassette player and the sound card and turn the volume up as high as it can go without distortion.
The better the cassette player, the less the tape “hiss” that will need to be corrected later.
After an entire side has been captured the work begins.
There is a graph displaying audio level within the recorded side.
Select a portion that is between songs.
Ideally that portion would be totally silent, but it probably contains some “hiss”.
Hilight that portion, and set the program to “clean up” the sound found there from the entire file.
This process may need to be repeated.
Don’t overdo it or you will deaden the sound.
Now you can break up the large file into the individual songs.
Once this is done there are many free programs that will convert the .wav files to .mp3 format, for loading to your ipod, burning to cd and so on.
There are programs that will automate the entire process, but I am skeptical that they can produce as good an mp3 as doing it yourself.