help me search?

[thereyougothen]

someone tell me just what i am looking for - i want to copy my vinyl and cassette collection to my PC. what am i looking for? we have an amazon voucher to spend so i'm hoping we can get somegting from there, but i have no idea what to search for...

help?

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[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

For the vinyl, one of these: http://tinyurl.com/2xouvz

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

You can run wiring from a stereo through one of those, too (in most cases. Mine does it, anyway) to record from cassette.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm told a sound card with a "line in" would do it. You might have some fun finding the right software to record from it. I'm told "audacity" will, and is free, but I don't know how easy it is to work. But I guess you guys are pretty tech-y, so that might not be a problem for you?

Hope that's helpful.
Hugh.

Audacity

[(Anonymous)]

I used Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ for my cassettes and it was so easy I kept thinking I was missing something. It's free software, but you'll need to buy a usb cable that plugs into the output on your cassette player. You could search on Amazon for "usb audio cable" and look through them, and you'll probably have enough left over for some CDs. You could get this http://tinyurl.com/37qxt8 but all the reviews I read said Audacity was best.

For your vinyl, it depends what output your present vinyl player has, whether you can do the same as the cassettes or have to buy new kit.