I had this great idea to digitize some videos and music that I have created or heloped to create over the years, edit them to manageable size and upload to my OOO. I even bought a neat little video capture device - I mean, I do need to transfer these old tape gems onto a media that is more stable.

But my unfortunate streak of bad luck continues. With no time for any problems, I am having many problems.

Some of the items I want to transfer are actually on cassette tape. Do you have any idea how hard it is to transfer cassette tape to computer file? Of course you don't.

Sounds easy on the website, but in reality, you have to find a loaner cassette player with an audio output first - especially if you have dropped almost $100 for the video capture device (but it will be worth it, right? Just imagine all the precious memories saved from degradation) - and then there is the matter of that little phrase, right there on that website I linked to: "equipment needed: software: audio recording software." Don't run right over that. That will turn out to be quite a little bugaboo. Because the software that came with the video capture device is only a limited version, it won't record audio. The software won't tell you, either, you will just have to hunt around in the menus, get frustrated and finally search (and search and search) through the horrid help section for help - by the way, I get perturbed with help applications that ask if its suggested fix answered the question when the suggested fix did not answer the question; it's like rubbing salt in the wound.

You know, I could rant on, but the shareware audio recording software I found from a Google search is ready to load. Cross you fingers for me: There is a better than fifty-fifty chance that this won't work either. Take even money that I don't have the right connectors.