I have done this on the cheap in our lab at the University of South Florida.
I used a cable that I bought from Target (~$6) and any cassette recorder.
You plug the cable into the headphone jack of the tape player and the other
end into in the mic jack on the computer.  I then used audacity (free, open
source software) to split the large track into smaller tracks.  You can then
convert to .mp3 and burn to an audio CD (using windows media player).  Here
is a link to the cable online http://www.sfcable.com/store/10a3-06.html

 

This process does take some time, but doesn't require any special equipment.
In fact I trained my student employees and it is now a relatively painless
process.  

 

Robert Summers

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Language Lab Coordinator

Instructor of French/ESOL

University of South Florida 

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