It's time to dust off that cassette deck and turn those precious cassette tapes into MP3s. Here's how.

What You Need To copy your tapes to your PC for digital archiving, you'll need exactly three things: A cassette player.

Combined the two can transfer your entire cassette library to a bunch MP3's ready for loading onto your MP3 player.

ION's Tape Dock transfers your old cassette tapes to your iPhone, iPod touch and computer.

Your cassette tapes will likely fare better. The Crosley Memory Master can also be connected to a computer via USB. It lists for $399 and can be seen at www.crosleyradio.com .