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Raid 762 has it right! I just finished converting 160 LP's to mp3. Also going to do the same with some old tapes.
With a turntable the output from the cartridge isn't strong enough to plug into the Line In on the sound card. I bought a cigarette package sized pre-amp from Radio Shack that runs on a 9V battery. Worked fine.
I think most tape players will have an output adequate for input to the sound card on your pc. Don't use the Mike input jack. You'll get distortion. Use the "tape out" jack on your player. If you use the regular audio out, or head phone jack then make sure the volume control is turned down so you don't overload your pc sound card. Audiograbber is good, but you need to put an mp3 encoder in it if you want more than 56 bits encoding. Lame is free and you can find it easily with an internet search. There are cracked versions of Frauenhofer (sp?) around too. Also BladeEnc is free.
Last edited by rikytik at Today at 9:03 am
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