Technology is a major part of our lives and it has brought important changes in our life since it has appeared in our life. The technology has advanced very much in the last few years and all the things that were at the beginning have been replaced with new inventions that have proved to be better equipped and with better functions.

All the things that have once appeared have advanced a lot. For example the first and old white and black TV first evolved to a new type of TV such as the colorful one and then to the slim or LCD TV and after it to plasma. Then the first type of computers which had such a small memory capacity, the computer itself which had a large size with a central unit that had a pretty regular size but with a computer monitor that was huge has been replaced by what we consider to be modern technology nowadays, mentioning here the Liquid Crystal type of monitors, the innovative laptops and notebooks as well as the netbooks that have been made available for us to use.



LCD computer monitors have been manufactured and they replaced the Cathode Ray tube type of displays but also the new models of regular and normal computer monitors. Then the majority of the files that we used for stocking different types of information has evolved a lot. Also if int the beginning we used to have video games, we could them play computer games and network games, we had disks and tapes, and then audio tapes to digital files became much more familiar among us.

Maybe this was one of the most useful and best examples for showing how much technology has changed, how media files have changed from the beginning when we were very excited about the audio tapes to modern times when the tapes have been replaced by CDs and DVDs. Nowadays we can have thousands of digital media files in our computer and we have a higher capability to storing a large number of files that we might want to use. From audio tapes to digital files that was a huge step that the multimedia field has done and it was just the beginning of the era in which technology would have the supreme control and just one little step which consolidated its important role in our lives and also the big role that the computer started to have in our life even more. Many people have even become extremely addicted to their computers and all the things that are related to their computer and to what they learned to do with it.



In this way it is very clear that technology influences the way the things go on from that point of view very much. It can also influence our behavior, our reactions, what we want to buy, what we want to use, what we want to do with all the things that have been discovered to be useful to us in the last few years.

To be honest it is very simple. You just need a device that plays audio cassettes, a cable which connects your cassette player device with your personal computer, a recording software, a CD burning software and an empty CD of course. So the first thing you have to do is to connect your cassette player device with your computer. You will need a stereo jack - jack (3.5 mm) cable, or in some cases RCA – stereo jack (3.5 mm) cable.

Connect the RCA side of the cable into the cassette player device (or the jack – jack side’s jack side - funny isn't it?) and the other side in your MIC (microphone) input in your computer (it has a pink ring on some sound cards). After you made the connection between the two devices, go to your local software store and ask for Adobe Audition 3.0 or Cool Edit 2.0 or Sony Sound Forge 10 (or just click here to download Adobe Audition 3.0, here for Cool Edit 2.0 and here for Sony Sound Forge 10).



After you installed the software double click on the shortcut (which should appear on your desktop). In Adobe Audition 3.0 will appear a multi track. Click on the Edit button at the bottom left side and after that click on the RECORD button. There will appear a window and it asks if you want it the channel to be Mono or Stereo, you select Stereo, Sample Rate 44100, and at the resolution you select 32-Bit (float), then press OK. The recording just started, so push the play button on your audio cassette player, and it will record the songs. After finished recording click on the stop button and go to File -> Save As (or just press Ctrl + S). There you can choose where to save your recording. After you selected the location where to save it in the File Name you write the name of the band and the song or anything what you want.



Hold on, because we’re not done yet. At the Save As type select mp3PRO® (FhG) (*mp3). After that click on the Options button and select CBR (constant bitrate), MP3 and where it says 96 Kbps, 44100 Hz, Stereo (29.4:1) – (or something similar) select 256 Kbps, 44100 Hz, Stereo (11.0:1). Or you can even select a higher one but the higher the Kbps is, more space will require on your hard drive. When you’re done click OK, then Save and you’re done. I mean almost… Now the only thing what you have to do, is to burn your music files on CDs. You can use software products like Nero Burning ROM, or Ashampoo Burning Studio 6, etc, just select the Audio CD option. And now you’re really done.



Note: For high quality recordings you will need a good sound card, a high quality tape. If the recording is too loud or distorted, then if you have Windows XP go to your volume control, double click on the icon, go to options recording devices, select microphone and click OK. There you can adjust your microphone input volume. Or just simply turn down the volume on your cassette player device. In Windows 7 go to your volume control, right click on the icon, recording devices, click on the microphone where says that default device, properties, level. Turn down the Microphone boost or turn down the microphone, and you’re done.