Quote Originally Posted by weasrock
whats the best way to rip from audio tape to MP3? Right now I'm using another program to record the audio through my PC to wav, then using DB amp power to convert to MP3. But with DB amp power installed my windows media player has no sound? any advice
Your method of capturing the audio is correct, but there are a number of products which will convert your wav file to mp3.

The most common use the lame product, but that's a command-line tool so you will probably want to find a windows product which uses the lame plug-in. If you get the k-lite codec pack (full version) you'll find a front end and plug-in which should do the job for you.