What You Need To copy your tapes to your PC for digital archiving, you'll need exactly three things: A cassette player.

If your media collection stretches back before the digital age, you may have wondered how to transform your VHS and cassette tapes into formats stored on a laptop or tablet. This article is here ...

The Audacity software it came with I have installed on my Dell Windows 7 laptop. A friend tried to help by connecting a tape deck to his USB turntable, to transfer the music to his Apple Laptop.

You'll need just a few things: a working cassette player, the right cable to connect it to the audio input of your computer, a free audio recording app called Audacity and a box of old cassettes.

The process isn't that complicated—all you really need is a tape recorder with RCA outputs and a computer running the free Audacity audio editor. However, just plugging it in and hitting record ...

Then there is the software that comes with, Audacity and the EZ Tape Converter from Mix Meister. Combined the two can transfer your entire cassette library to a bunch MP3's ready for loading onto ...