- Find yourself a record player or cassette player.
- Buy a patch cord, that goes from the out on the player to the line-in jack on the computer’s sound card.
- If you don’t have a sound editing program, try Audacity. It will work on any operating system.
- Configure your program to output the file format you want. MP3 is popular, as is WMA.
- If you are converting music, split each song into its own file. With an audiobook or such, you may wish to divide it into five second intervals, or by chapter or section, to make it easier to navigate.
How to Digitize Your Cassettes and LPs
If you’re using a record player, you should hook it up to a preamp then connect the out on the preamp to the line-in on the computer sound card.
At least, that’s what I read.
Very good bit of advice. Although some record players have built in pre-amps. Check your documentation. They also make special more expensive ones specifically for computer capturing.