Summary:
Ever wanted to preserve the music on those old tapes you have lying around in a more reliable format? Take a look at this tutorial for an inexpensive way to convert music on tape to digital files.

Details or Sample:
Copying music from tapes is a bit trickier than ripping straight from CDs because some extra hardware is required. There are probably more technological (and expensive!) ways to do this that will preserve the music at a higher quality, but doing it this way will preserve it at about radio quality. Copying from a tape will never be as good as CD quality anyway because the media itself is not as good.

Hardware needed:
* A computer: Windows 95 at least, XP recommended; no guarantees if you have a Mac or Linux computer, although there should be software available for those systems now as well
* A tape player: any kind, as long as it has a headphone jack
* A cable that can plug into a headphone port on both ends: a male-male 1/4´´ cable which can be bought for a few dollars

Software needed:
* A music file conversion program such as dbPowerAMP or BladeEnc
* A wave recording program: many music players bundled with Windows can record, as well as many downloadable programs.
* A music editing program such as WavePad (somewhat optional)

Steps
1. Connect the cable to the headphone port on the tape player and the microphone port on the computer.
2. Place the tape you wish to copy into the tape player and advance it to the song you want.
3. Open the wave recording program. Make sure that it is set up to record from the microphone jack and that the microphone is not muted.

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