Need advice on how to capture a regular audio tape to a wav

[byrdmaniac69]

I need to make a cd and one song I need is only available on cassette tape. How can I capture to a wav file so I can burn to a cd? I know the quality will be marginal but I need this song. I have a microphone in on my sound card, I also have acid pro 3.0 from sonic foundry.

[Dragonsf]

Best way to do it, is to connect your tape recorder through line out to line in of your sound card (and use CoolEdit 2.0 free trial for recording).This'll give you the best option with your current situation.
If your recorder has no line out, you can use the phone connector, but you have you decrease the volume, best way with a voltage divider (10:1) that is 10kOhm resistor in series and 100 KOhm parallel, or not so good to lower recording volume.
Using the mic in is not advisable, because of level difference between the output of your recorder and the mic in (but possible with a voltage divider).
Worst way is to record via microphone.
With CoolEdit you can later edit your wave, i.e. noise removal, levl normalizing and such.

[CryptKeeper]

if you can give some specs on your tape player
i might be able to help you out

what I need to know is
1) is it a portable radio
2) does it have an audio output besides the regular speaker outputs only
3) do you have any other type of player that can give you an output besides speakers out only