Most pcs seem to offer line ins still.
Brian

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On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 23:59:47 +0100, TimW wrote:

A half a dozen of old cassettes of speech need to be digitised for
archive purposes. I could maybe get the old hifi out of the cupboard and
the cassette deck might work. How do I then connect that to a PC? Could
use a windows or linux machine. Would that be better than a £20 usb
cassette player from amazon?:
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076PFJK..._IOhxDb00BE8TF
When I have an audio file I think I could remove a bit of hiss with
audacity or similar. Would that be 'job done'?
TW

Just connect a low-level output of the hifi to the microphone input of
the PC. You might need an attenuator to avoid overloading.
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