Cassette tape into computer

I have a JVC cassette player, maybe 15 years old. I want to archive some cassettes. Can I go into the computer straight form the tape deck? What do I need?
Thank you,
Mike

Yes, it should be possible, however the quality is likely a bit less than using a good audio interface box. Might be fine for your purposes and quality level.
Assuming your JVC has left/right analog audio line outputs with RCA jacks - you need a cable like this that has a 3.5mm stereo mini plug on one end and left/right RCA plugs on the other end:
[cable|http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?cid=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021804&pid=665&seq=1&format=2]
Connect the RCAs to the JVC outputs and the 3.5mm plug to the Macbook Pro Line-in jack. Select the analog line-in in System Preferences/sound. Use software such as Garageband or Audacity to record your cassette into the computer.
BTW, I haven't tried this setup yet myself.

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Tapes will have hiss. Some of this is deliberate as Dolby Noise Reduction technology of the time, some will just be the tape. Dolby NR is probably best handled at the tape end of things if you make sure you use Dolby filtering on your player for tapes on which it was used originally (you'll only know if it was marked at the time of recording). If you don't have it you can try using computer filtering. I did a bit of this with a program called Amadeus many years ago. It let you sample a bit of the digitized recording which is supposedly blank to get the background noise, then apply it acrosss the whole file. There's always a bit of risk in doing this because you may have something in the recording that looks like the noise signal but is part of the actual sound. Audiophiles can have a field day discussing this.
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Run a mini-jack (1/8th) cable from the headphone output on your hi-fi or cassette player to the line-in on your iMac.
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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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One way, which I use to record vinyl, is to connect your cassette player (through the Tape out sockets of your amplifier) to the audio in socket of your computer. On the computer you'll need audio editing software to capture and edit the resulting long file into individual tracks that can be added to the iTunes Library. There are a number of commercial programs for this (I use Sound Studio for the Mac but there are Windows programs). If want to try out the process first you could try the open source program Audacity which has Linux, Mac and Windows versions at this link: Audacity
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