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getting old analogue music into MP3 format

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I am gonna buy a "MP3" player

one thing I wanna do is transfer my old vinyl collection and audio cassetes (D90's from the eighties and nineties) to electronic format

any ideas on how best to do this?

and do I need to choose my new MP3 player carefully in order to support me in this
(or is this something I can do by buying some soft/hard-ware for my PC, and downloading the files onto the MP3 player) ?

many thanks in advance
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I recently did this and the results were quite good.

I established a "legacy stereo" area in my home office where I have my old components including Nikko receiver, Nakamichi cassette and B&O turntable... all of which are in fine condition.

I just run L/R output jacks into my PC's "line in" and use Audacity to record. By the way, I discovered Audacity via this forum and must say it is one of the better pieces of free software. It is quite sophisticated... AND you can export to MP3 via the LAME encoder (not included in Audacity due to legal issues).
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