SWMBO has about 100 cassettes collected over a 40 year period that she wants to listen to on her empeg. Few if any of these are available on CD.

I am finding it a time-consuming and frustrating process to turn them into MP3 files.

Presently I am using the cassette deck that used to be in the ShoWagon, running it through Total Recorder to write 32-256 VBR MP3 files.

Total Recorder has some nice bells and whistles, like the ability to stop recording when the input level drops to nn decibels for nn seconds, and the ability to delete pauses in the audio of more than nn seconds, as happens when the cassette auto-reverses. Unfortunately, the cassette deck sends enough noise down the line during auto reverse that Total Recorder just keeps right on recording.

There must be people here who have converted cassette collections over to MP3s. Does anyone have ideas of a better way to do it?

tanstaafl.