[SamAdams76]

The cheapest way to do it is to hook a pair of RCA cables between your tape deck and your computer sound card. Then use any type of jukebox program to do the job. I prefer Roxio Easy-CD Creator. It's fairly straightforward. You play your tapes and record them as .WAV files. Then you compress them in the MP3 format you desire. I prefer 160bps MP3s but I'm picky about my audio. 128bps should be fine for most.

I just got done converting a bunch of my Christmas tapes to MP3 and then I loaded them in my iPod. They sound great!

[Nita Nupress]

The cheapest way to do it is to hook a pair of RCA cables between your tape deck and your computer sound card. Then use any type of jukebox program to do the job. I prefer Roxio Easy-CD Creator. It's fairly straightforward. You play your tapes and record them as .WAV files. Then you compress them in the MP3 format you desire. I prefer 160bps MP3s but I'm picky about my audio. 128bps should be fine for most.

I just got done converting a bunch of my Christmas tapes to MP3 and then I loaded them in my iPod. They sound great!

I like cheap, especially since I already have that software on my hard drive! I think it came with the CD-RW disc drive I added.  Thanks, Sam.  And it's nice hearing from you again. (Merry Christmas!)

[arasina]

The cheapest way to do it is to hook a pair of RCA cables between your tape deck and your computer sound card.

Okay...but how do you hook that pair of cables to your sound card? I have an older Sony Vaio computer and wouldn't know where to begin. I know how to do the production stuff that follows by using the appropriate software, but I can't do that if I can't get the material transferred in the first place. :o)