Cassettes ARE magnetic recording tape. You can record these onto a computer and then burn them to CD, or use a standalone CD recorder to transfer the recording.
A number of companies will transfer music cassettes onto CD or DVD. Some companies offering this service include 'Southtree', 'Home Video Studio' and 'DVD Your Memories'.
It's very easy to convert music to cassettes. All you'll need is iTunes and a mini-to-mini cable to transfer the music.
An audio cassette has the music on it recorded in an analogue format, while a CD records information in a digital format. Thus in order to transfer the music from the cassette to the CD it is necessary to play the music on the cassette into a machine that will sample the sound and convert it into a numeric (digital) form, this is called analogue to digital conversion. It would be possible to build a machine to do this, but most of the 'off the shelf' technology to do this is now sold as computer components (boards to fit into a PC). Thus, depending on how many cassettes you want to transcribe you have two options # Use a company to do this for you (if you have only a few cassettes) # Go to a shop and purchase a PC - tell the store what you want to do and they will configure the PC for you (if you have a lot of cassettes) Look at the links I will place below
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Yes it is possible to play cassettes through a car CD player by using a cassette to digital adapter. The songs on the cassette will be transferred into digital format.
Remarkably the music industry was relatively supportive of CDs as a replacement for cassettes, because cassettes made home recording too easy.
because the sound quality was worse than Cd's and they get wrecked easier
Yes there are portable CD players that also play cassettes, but are only found in boombox styles.
Record the tape using the audio line in, save as a wav,mp3, any thing like that. Then burn on to an audio CD
Cd's are more commonly used for music in cars now,cassettes are outdated,though they are still rarely used.
The company Maxwell (part of Hitachi) still produce cassettes of up to 150 minutes of length. The company also deals in videos, batteries, CD and DVD formats.