

In most cases, it is one of the easier and least expensive solutions for transferring tape, because you do not have to find a working portable tape player, invest in a more expensive dubbing deck or cable the computer to the stereo components in the living room. But you have other options, like getting an inexpensive adapter that links a standard audio cable from the cassette player to the Mac’s USB jack.Ī dedicated USB-to-MP3 cassette converter can cost as little as $25. Although some MacBook models once had a combination audio port that you could manually switch in the settings to accept sound input, this feature is not available on all of Apple’s hardware.

Many of the USB cassette gizmos for copying the recordings to the computer have software on CD - and my laptop doesn’t have a CD drive either.

I want to convert some old lectures on cassette tapes to MP3 files, but my MacBook seems to have only a headphone port.
