How does one copy cassette tapes to computer?


I have a friend who wants to save his recordings he has on cassette to his computer. Are there any products out there that could do this, and how would one go about it? I would be interested in knowing the answer to this myself. I know there are products out there for transferring vinyl to the computer, but what about cassettes?
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I can't help with recommendations for doing that on a PC but on a Mac the combination of the 1/8" to dual RCA adapter to the built-in audio input and the "CD Spin Doctor" application that comes as part of the Toast software package works well.

He'll get one complete audio file per cassette side. If he wants to separate those files into individual tracks it can be done manually with any number of audio editing applications. Audacity is a good free one for both Mac and PC platforms. There is a function in CD Spin Doctor to automatically separate the tracks but it almost always requires some manual tweaking. I found it was too time consuming to separate the tracks so in most cases I just play the entire side, just as you would do on the cassette player.