Fear not. Up the Mersey on a bubble yesterday, arrive I did not. The whole lot is backed up to external hard drive, as are all my ripped CDs and all the stuff which I've downloaded over the years.

Dani. If it's still working, your own domestic equipment should do the job fine. Granted, running a connection between the headphone socket of your hifi and your computer will likely have a few buffs running round in horrified amazement. But if they're not original recordings, and they're only for your own pleasure, and you're not planning to throw the originals out, I can't see much in the way of a problem

If you don't still possess a cassette player or record deck, they can be picked up from places like Maplin and at easily affordable prices.