If you run the signal thru a speaker into a microfone, you will not like the result. Instead run a wire from audio out, or speaker ports to an audio in or microfone port.
I have seen it done with Audacity, a free program, but transferring an hour took an hour, and plan on spending time reading the manual. At 11:40 AM -0400 7/26/08, Marta Edie wrote: >I do have an iMic and also final Vinyl in my computer. I just >thought this to be only for old records, not for cassettes .My >cassette "thing" in order to play,needs to be connected to a radio >or other device, but I also have a number of players that play >cassettes as well as CDs, and I even can transfer the CDs unto a >cassette, but not vice versa which seems odd, but is true. >I thought maybe some of you all had done the procedure. > >Marta > >On Jul 26, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Bill Micou wrote: > >>Here are some discussions about how to do it: >> >><http://music.macsales.com/read.php?f=2&i=181&t=181>http://music.macsales.com/read.php?f=2&i=181&t=181 >> >><http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=312471>http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=312471 >> >>Here is a step-by-step tutorial about how to do it: >> >><http://www.macinstruct.com/node/131>http://www.macinstruct.com/node/131 >> >>and the $150.00 solution: >><http://www.smithgear.com/ion-tape2pc.html>http://www.smithgear.com/ion-tape2pc.html >> >> >>On Jul 26, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Marta Edie wrote: >> >>>Does anybody know how I could transfer the contents of some of my >>>old cassette tapes into the computer and then burn CDs or even >>>turn them into CDs by some other magical device? >>> >>>Marta >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>Posting address: >><mailto:MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu>MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >>Information: >><http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup>http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > > >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup