How to copy audiotape cassettes to your PC and/or a CD ROM.

If you think the software that came with your PC will enable you to do this, you are wrong.   You will need to download a free shareware program, called Audacity.  You can download it from http://www.download.com.   Then install it on your PC, putting a shortcut on your desktop.   Be sure to connect your audiotape cassette player to your PC’s ”line in” or “aux in” (not the mic input), as the line level voltage is different.  If the sound doesn’t play through your PC’s speakers, click on the speaker icon in your system tray (bottom right corner of PC screen), and choose options, then properties.  From this page, choose adjust volume properties for recording, and in the list of checkboxes below, turn the check on for the line in/aux.  After you have used Audacity to save your audiotape cassette music to a wav file, then use Windows Media Player (it comes with Windows XP), to burn the wav file to a CD.  Of course, to do this, your PC must have a CD writer drive on it.   To load Windows Media Player, first click on your start button, and then click on Programs, Accessories, Entertainment.