Digitize Your Cassette Tapes

Digitize your Music and Lectures from Cassette Tapes using GarageBand ’09
Basic steps:

  1. Load audio cassette and have it ready to play from the beginning.
  2. Plug one side of an audio cable into the tape player and the other end into your iMac.
  3. Open GarageBand. Choose File > New.
  4. Select “Piano” template.
  5. Name the project.
  6. In GarageBand Preferences, select Audio/Midi and set Audio Input to Built-in Input.
  7. Click the “Add” button at the bottom of the left side bar (“Tracks”).
  8. Turn the tape player’s volume all the way up.
  9. Click the Record button in GarageBand.
  10. Start playing the tape.
  11. When finished, click the Record button again to stop.
  12. From the Share menu, select “Send Song to iTunes.”