There's a thing called Total Recorder (trialfree). Nokia has a media converter that's not2bad. There's also a free dld called SuperC (French company) which has lost of options. You will need, of course, a good cassette player (Check out used Sony WM-D6C with dolbyB&C) on eBay (without "C" you only get dolbyB_. Griffin has some good interface tools to USB for clean input.
A friend of mine does TV commercials. She uses Audacity, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/, for sound recording, mixing and editing [AIFF uncompressed], and Final Cut Pro for video. She picked up an audio/mic sound mixer at Radio Shack for $40 and it does exactly what she needs. I think that mixer/equalizer is down to $30 now, and is good enough for commercials, and maybe for music; it depends on the source and expected result--pay more, get more. Or use a Griffin iMic for importing/digitizing if you don't have RCA-in jacks.
Once you record your cassettes and vinyl, you can simply set the iTunes preferences to import your AIFF or WAV files and automatically convert them to MP3. Advanced---importing---import using MP3 encoder---setting---custom...>=192kbps... and retrieve track names automatically for Internet database. Very easy once you set the preferences.
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