Have an oldish music centre. Had hoped to convert cassettes and some LPs to CD, using phono lead and microphone socket on pc.

[kia cat]

Now find the only phono socket on the back is line in. So would the headphone socket from music centre to microphone socket on pc work? Or would the sound quality suffer? Thanks

[Mortartube]

You should be able to use the headphone socket but keep the volume relatively low up to about half way, from the stereo and turn the line in volume all the way up on the PC. You will still probably have hiss from a cassette though.

Have an experiment.

[Hammer]

What Mortartube siad.

I've done this in the past, my only advice would be to play with the volume of the hi-fi and the levels on the microphone until you get something that's not too quiet, or too distorted. And if you're looking for software, Audacity is a good free program which will record an album in one long file and the let you chop it up into tracks easily enough.