Geekhelp request: Best audio capture?

[Jot the Dot Dot]

I have several audio tapes of my brother's portastudio music recordings that, before I would just record them onto a compact cassette. What application/download would you recommend where I could play it into my computer microphone, so that I could start/stop recording Song 1, then 2, 3, etc., then download each separately to have a folder of them as MP3 or WAV files, and then burn them onto a CD?

 

[acraven]

I've never tried to capture pure audio (as opposed to video with audio as in TV shows) on a computer, so I can't answer your question. But I think what you are proposing to do is probably not the best way to attack the situation. I think you need a cassette player with audio outputs (that you would normally run to a set of speakers), which you would plug into a properly-equipped computer. Whether "properly equipped" means "having a video-capture card" or something else, I just do not know. And I don't know what type of software would be needed. I suspect that what I use for TV shows (VideoReDo) might also be able to handle pure-audio files, but it's not something I've ever investigated.

 

[rjblue]

I used to record from a cassette the way you describe, using the program Audacity.