The Deck Cassette Converter

Roxio has a program that will do that for you

Yes, it is NOT a converter. It is merely a tape deck one can mount in the PC tower, and perhaps control from same. A patch cable is a lot cheaper, if you already have ANY cassette deck.

They need to build one with a DSP chip that will convert to MP3s on the fly, but you would still have to babysit pretty dilligently to edit properly.

Right now, you still have to
Record the cassette tape to you hard disk.

Split that audio file in to song sized chunks.

THEN, rip those AIFF files to MP3 or whatever.

This deck doesn't really speed the process any. You still need to be there every 3 minutes or so and edit things manually at some point.

I have one of these things, solid hardware, bad software.

Here's the review:

http://www.sffaudio.com/2007/01/hardware-review-of-plus-deck-2-from.html

I own and use the 4€ cable ^^

There are online services to convert from tape and LP to digital tracks, just google a bit!! ^^

Dude....this thing has been available on thinkgeek.com for YEARS. Not even kidding. I know for a fact it's been there at least a year.