Connect your stereo amplifier to your PC's sound board and use the free, open-source Audacity audio-conversion software to create MP3s, WMAs, or other digital copies of your analog tunes.

Today in my Ask Andru column, we have a question from Janine, a kindergarten teacher (and GeekWire radio show listener) who wants to know how to convert her books on cassette over to a digital format.

The Audacity software it came with I have installed on my Dell Windows 7 laptop. A friend tried to help by connecting a tape deck to his USB turntable, to transfer the music to his Apple Laptop.

With the move to cloud and digital content that's taken the world by storm, older technologies have fallen by the wayside. The problem, though, is that there are still plenty of great pieces of ...