I got so much help here I feel I should add a few more comments. clayladylei and urlee.....do go into the link Audacity, del 5 posted and read... also in my original post randy ca posted a link acoustica-spin-it again. Both my husband and I read and reread these links. Learned alot there. We brought software on sale for $15 called Cakewalk Pyro 5. It lets you split tracks and clean up noise. We have one CD that we are really proud of. You will need a USB cable that connects from the record player (we used the earphones plug in) to input connection on the back of computer. Had to buy a adapter to make one end the right size connection. I tell you, these young people in at Staples, Radio Shack, Best Buy, etc can rattle this stuff off like you wouldn't believe. Just ask them. We put all this together and it worked. DH is ready to take on some cassetts now. randy ca......I know about 78's....they really go back in time don't they? My parents bought a new radio in 1946 with a record player....I was in 7th heaven and it only played 78's. I still have several of them.... About 1942 or 43, I was visiting grandparents in Southern Illinois that summer, they had a Victrola, one that you cranked with a handle to make it work. See I am to old. It just fascinated me to death. I wanted some of their records. Grandma being a grandma sent a few records home that trip. I still have 3 of them, by Capitol Records dated, 1901 and two dated 1903, and they are in excellent condition. urlee you can do this....anybody that can master doing Snags like you do.... can do this....Snags is above me.... Good luck everybody.

THANK YOU! This looks like something that would do it although I'm not understanding how the gadget plugs into the two ports at the back of the old Panasonic (perhaps it just needs another cord with the red and white plugs at each end). I also did more web searching and came up with the Ion u-Record Music Archiver at Think Geek I'm not sure how it works...as it too just seems to connect the computer with the old music outfit, but this one seems to need software installed and I'm wondering if it is for more complex stuff than I'm trying to do. Has anyone used this? As I said before, I'm not very computer savvy (I'm from the old LP era) and appreciate being able to do this without a lot of frills and hassles. Thanks again for any and all input. Here is a link that might be useful: Ion u-Record

My library just redid the whole website, adding a video to show people how to do the download. It explains that the system won't work with iPods because the books are Windows Media files. My DS gave me a new mp3 player as a Christmas gift, one with a larger capacity. It's rechargeable. However, a charge won't last the length of a book, and when I plug it back in to the USB hub to charge it, the book reverts to the beginning. So I'm back to using my first mp3 player, which runs on a battery and works just fine.

I do the same as Netla. All of our music is stored on the computer thanks to iTunes. We download it to our iPods. We also have an AirPort so we can play our music wirelessly to our home speakers. We have no need (thankfully) to keep our CD's nearby. They are in storage in their original cases. We have taken our DVD's out of their cases & put them into one of the binder type holders because of space issues. We also put those cases in storage. Julie, would an iPod work for you? A Shuffle is only about $100 & it holds about 16 hours of music. To me, that's much easier than carrying around CD's & switching them out. I like mine so much I even listen to it when I go to Wal-Mart.