Picture illustration of how to connect a cassette player to computer to record to mp3?
Trying to turn my old cassettes into mp3 via my computer through a cassette player (boombox) keep buying wrong connection perhaps? I bought a 1.8M stereo mini cable. I have realaudio but not usb on my audio device?
I haven’t seen a boom box with an output jack — are you sure an output jack is what you’re using? (It could also be a headphone jack, and if the jack was 1/4" you can get an adapter for the cable) The stereo mini cable would run from an 1/8th inch jack on the boom box to the input (line in, generally a blue connector) jack on your sound card. In that case, you wouldn’t be using USB, you’d be using line in.
Here is a page with some instructions and pictures, but don’t use a USB setting as pictured, since you’re using the soundcard:
http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/DIY/how_step_one.php