Converting Cassette tapes to MP3...

[trajillo]

Goldwave...or if you want....adobe audition

Goldwave: http://www.goldwave.com/

AA: http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/main.html

goldwave is more basic and AA is more for producing songs etc. i still use it

[worldpease]

NERO 6 has a very simple aplication that does exactly that,
as I said, its very simple and easy, and also in NERO, is a remastering app,
I did it with a song my dad had on 'kct', you know, one of those songs
you just won'tfind on the web.

[harrycary]

Get this built-in cassette deck for your PC...

http://www.a1-electronics.net/PcHardware/Various/2005/1st/PlusDeck2_Mar.shtml

[abu_has_the_power]

i use my iriver h320. hook up the tape player to the line in, and record to mp3 in real time at any bitrate i like. god i love my iriver h320

[fkdup74]

well, if you want absolutely free, Audacity can do it
(it's pretty nice for a freeware)

not-so-free:
Nero
Polderbits Sound Recorder (I've used this for analog recording before, very nice)
Adobe Audition (kinda bloated for just recording a tape or two)

or you can google "wav recorder" to get some more ideas,
but I'm not sure how many freewares are out there

[clearlight]

what quality of sound do you get when transfered?

[fkdup74]

what quality of sound do you get when transfered?

you can actually get a fairly decent rip of a cassette
the good apps for recording from analog have options to remove tape hiss, pops, etc
and you can play around with the dB settings too
all in all I was fairly impressed with the quality
but a decent tape deck doesn't hurt though
one with at least Dolby B and/or C noise reduction