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Hello,
I have 5 commercial cassettes made by a musician friend who is now passed away. Each has 10 tracks, 5 to a side. I want to put the tracks on a memorial set of two CDs.

I have (analog) copied them from the tapes to my PC, trimmed them and saved them with a good editing program. I burned the tracks from the first 3 tapes on one CD using Roxio and they came out fine. No problem. Then I burned the tracks from the last two tapes on another CD. Indications were that it went fine. When I went to play that CD, all the tracks from the last (5th) tape were very faint and garbled, Unrecognizable. Further investigation showed that they were also playing very fast. (like 3 or 4X) Useless! I repeated the copying from tape making a few adjustments, with the same results. I tried burning this 2nd CD in Windows Media Player. Results the same. WMP said those 10 tracks couldn't be copied because the program couldn't determine the length of the tracks, but playing them might fix it. Well. I played the 10 tracks, and yes, it showed the length of each, indicating no problem, so I burned another disc. It burned the 10 tracks from the 4th tape, but there was nothing from the 10 tracks on the fifth disk.

Obviously, there is something different about this 5th tape, but I can't see anything different. All the tracks play fine on the computer. In the editor, the waveforms all look the same. WEll...Initially the fifth had a higher volume level, exceeding the limits on one or more tracks. But adjusting that was easy. (The first four were all the same. Used the same volume setting.)

Any ideas what's causing this or how to fix it?

I'm really PO'd because I want to preserve this fellow's music and make memorial sets for a couple of friends and myself.

p.s. The fifth tape, causing the problem is the most recent of the 5.