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Cassettes to pc

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abhs94
abhs94
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I have a bunch of old cassettes and i want to get their material to the pc. i got a few guides from the net but it happens to be that my deck doesn't provide an RCA audio output. It had an output for sub woofers and one output similar to that in the sound card of a computer. Any ideas???

p.s.- for reference, mine is a sony mini hi-fi system

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abhs94
abhs94
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anybody out there??????

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ScottW
ScottW
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You need a cassette player with line-level outputs. You can't use speaker outputs. The jack(s) for the line-level output don't have to be RCA jacks, they could be on a 1/4" (quarter inch) stereo mini-plug. A headphone output jack would work. Most mini HiFi systems have built-in speakers so they might not provide an AUX output, but they should always have a headphone jack.

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abhs94
abhs94
Posts: 130

Ok so how do i use the head fone jack for that

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ScottW
ScottW
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The typical line input on a PC is a 1/8" (3.5mm) stereo mini-plug, so you need a cable and any necessary adapters to connect the output of the stereo to the line in of the PC. The most common cable for this is a 1/8" to 1/8" connector. Then, if the headphone jack is 1/4", you would need an adapter. Many headphones come standard with a 1/8" plug and a 1/4" adapter provided. This adapter would work just as well for connecting the headphone jack to a PC input.

A headphone jack is not as ideal as an AUX jack because a headphone jack has a variable level controlled by the volume. When using a headphone jack instead, you will need to adjust the volume level so that the output of the player does not overdrive the inputs nor should the signal be low because that will increase the noise.

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