I have a Challange for the music collecters here...

As you can see I have a "Few' Bootleg tapes in my collection! Some of them date back to the late 70's and are getting old,the tape is getting brittle,the sound quality is dropping (Image Imprint Migration from being in storage too long) and I would like to save some of them to disc (Cd or Dvd) some of these recordings are rare (Velvet Underground Austin Tx 1969 for example),not yet availvable on the trading sites and I wanna make I so other folk can enjoy the music.
So my question is how do I do this? I use Debian based Linux (Elive on one 'puter Umbuntu on the lappy, so winblows proggies won't work without major changes (Dual-Booting my 'puters,and I really don't wanna do that)
Any Ideas??

See link below to see what I'm Facing!!

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...otos/00037.jpg

holy crap thats a lot of tape lol

you will only be able to record in real-time if you want to keep it simple...

on the hardware side, you just need to plug the line out from your tape player into the line in/mic socket on the pc.
you may need to adjust the mic sensitivity in your operating system depending on how the signal comes through. you may need to buy a connector to convert the line-out from the tape deck into the smaller pin on the mic socket, available from electric/audio places.

then its a case of finding some software/freeware that can record live from your mic socket, and convert the recording into somthing convenient like mp3.

under windows theres any of hundreds of little apps that can do it, sureley there must be a simmilar thing for linux....all i can suggest on that front is searching for linux audio apps

Thanks,I've looked for an app but havent found anything that does not lose some sound quliaty in the conversion,I'm gonna keep lookin.
And yea it is a buttload of tape,appx 575 90 min tapes or nearly 900 hours of music! gotta love it!