Cassette to MP3: How?

[DavidB]

I am doing some pre- Spring Cleaning and want to get out of my home a bunch of old cassettes. They still work, and I bought them properly (since piracy wasn’t as popular several years ago), so I hate to just throw them in the garbage. But I’d like the space on my bookshelf for books instead of cassettes.

However, I don’t know how to get the music off the cassettes and convert it to an MP3 format, so I can get it on to my MP3 player and iPod.

Suggestions?

[stultuske]

well, there are several commercial solutions to the problem out there, and also some freeware applications that can help you out.

another way would be to buy one of those turntable-to-mp3 with built in casette dech.

anyway, I haven't tried any of them myself yet, so I can't really recommend any.

[GrimJack]

Audacity will do what you want and it is free - you will need a line out from your player to the line in on your computer.

Without line out/in you can use earphone out and microphone in but watch your levels.