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Is there a 'boombox' on the market now that will let me record cassette tapes to cd? Or how else can I ?

I have lots of music on old cassette tapes that I would like to hear and save. Is there some easy low-tech way that I can transfer it to a more modern format? It seems most players can record from cd to cassette, but what's out there that will allow me to transfer from cassette to an easier listened to form?

You can easily do it with your PC like this:
Put simply, you will need to connect your cassette player to your PC soundcard, then play the cassette whilst recording on your PC. A step-by-step guide is available at:

http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/DIY/index.php

(follow the link to ‘Cassette to CD‘)
The recording software is the key, there are some free software downloads available at:

http://www.cassette2cd.co.uk/downloads.php

I have used ‘Magix Audio Cleaning Lab’ and ‘Audacity’ – Audacity is particularly popular since it is free!
If you record to WAV format, expect file sizes of around 10MB per minute, or 1MB per minute for MP3 (at 128kbps).
Once you have your digital versions of the recording on your PC, simply burn them on to a CD (Nero burning software or similar..). If you use Magix Audio Cleaning, the software will burn an audio CD for you without needing additional software (assuming you have a CD writing drive of course!)
You will need the additional 'lame_enc.dll' file to export into MP3 - this can also be downloaded from the free software page.
You can also download a free PDF version of the step-by–step guide from the download page mentioned above, the guide is complete with diagrams and screen-shots.
Hope this helps (if you like the online guide, don't forget to 'DIGG' it....)

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