Converting Tape to CD:

What you’ll need to do is connect a tape player to your sound card’s line-in terminal with a 1/8″ mini-jack and record the contents of your tape as a WAV file. To do this, we recommend using the free version of MusicMatch 6.0. Just set MusicMatch to record the line-in channel, press play on your tape deck, and then press the record button on the MusicMatch Jukebox. Use Spin Doctor from Roxio to burn the CD. It’s part of Roxio’s Easy CD Creator 5.

Before you create the CDs, you may want to transfer the WAV files to an editing studio. Pro Tools, Sound Forge, or Cool Edit Pro will work just fine. Let your budget determine which one you get.

Digidesign has recently made a free version of Pro Tools available. Pro Tools is the industry standard among recording professionals worldwide. It’s not a user-friendly program but you can download a copy to edit and clean up WAV files before burning them to CD.