well, first you have to locate your sound card on the back of the computer. You should hook your tape player or mixer to the line-in jack. Its going to be the same size as your earphone jack. 1/8 inch.

You will need some sort of sound editing software. Alot of people use Cooledit, but a good free one for starters would be Goldwave. Do a yahoo search to find it. Take some time to learn whatever editing software you use.

You will use this program to create wave files. (.wav) You will record with this software, as you play your tapes. (more technical stuff down below) After recording, you can use the editor to do such things as remove tape hiss, up bass or treble, stuff like that. (thats why i said learn whatever program you use.)

You said you have a burner. If you installed all the software for the burner, it should have come with a program to make cd audio disks. It will convert those .wav files that you made, into .cda files (CDA udio tracks) and burn the CD.

That's the simple version. To do properly and to ensure you take your recordings and convert them well, you will need to practice, and play around a bit. You will not learn enough in one night.

First off, CD audio files need a certain recording frequency to read properly. When you record your tapes, you will have to record at 44100 Khz, 128 Kbts, 16 bit stereo. When you open a new file for recording in your editor, it should ask what type of file.

In subsequent msgs, I will delve deeper into each step. It will take a bit to do, but keep reading.

Steve