Note: The Arrela Portable USB Cassette to MP3 Converter mentioned above was provided to me at no cost or a discounted cost in exchange for my unbiased review. Or you can always hire me by contacting me at and I’d be happy to help you. If the rest of the process sounds daunting, contact your neighborhood techie and let him/her do the rest. It allows you to use your computer to record the audio from your cassette tapes. The Arrela Portable USB Cassette to MP3 Converter does its job perfectly. If all of this sounds a little overwhelming, just know this. Hank Williams: “Your Cheating Heart” sample recorded using the Arrela Portable USB Cassette to MP3 Converter Leave it to a techie Here’s a 15-second sample of Your Cheating Heart by Hank Williams that I created using the Arrela Portable USB Cassette to MP3 Converter. Rinse and repeat for each song on your cassette tape. Then you’ll need to split the sound recording at that point and save the clip as a separate MP3 file. This is where it helps to know how to use Audacity because you’ll need to scan through the recording you made to find where one song ends and the next one begins. But I’m guessing most people will want to split each song up into its own MP3 file. If you want, you can leave it like this and create one MP3 file which contains every song on the cassette tape. When you’re done recording your cassette, you will have one recording in Audacity that represents every song on your cassette tape. There is an auto-reverse feature on the cassette player which at least saves you the time flipping the cassette over to the other side when one side is finished.

Mind you, you have to play the cassette tape, at normal speed, the entire way through before you can stop recording.

As your cassette plays, Audacity will digitally record it.

When the software is ready to go, you load a cassette tape into the player and click the record button in Audacity and then press the play button on the cassette player. Next, you choose the cassette player as your input recording device. You connect the Arrela Portable USB Cassette to MP3 Converter to your computer via USB cable and install the Audacity software (or run the software if you already have it installed). The conversion process goes something like this. And you’ll need to learn the basics of Audacity if you want to successfully convert your cassette tapes to MP3 files. Audacity is a fantastic piece of software but it does have a high learning curve.

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