can't you accomplish pretty much the same thing with a walkman or somethin similar and a cable with 1/8" male stereo plugs on both ends (one goes into the headphone jack on the cassette player; the other into your soundcard aux or mic jack)?

Island Dog, I owe you a big thanks! I had actually tried to record my tapes to mp3 using my stereo, it didn't work. But having read your post, I tried again with my sons "Spongebob Boombox". I don't know why, but it worked...whereas the stereo still won't.

I'm guessing it's a pre-amp issue or, the fact that I need an adapter for the Aiwa. But you just saved me $140. I would have bought that deck had this not worked.

It's worth mentioning that Audacity worked wonders with my cassettes. They still don't sound perfect mind you, but a lot of the hiss and pops are gone.

I was actually able to post an old song I wrote on my blog. I'm world wide! (Ugh)LOL

Thanks ID. I appreciate it.