"Thanks for your responses. The simple route I know. I'd like to use software because I do have some older material that I'd like to digitize and take the pops and clicks out of."
It really doesn't matter. Once you burn the CD, your music is digital and you can further process it however you wish. Just rip the CD to your hard drive.
If you're on a tight budget, here's a useful link for you. From this page you can download a self contained OS filled with free, open source software for AV creation and manipulation. All you need to do is download the file and burn it to a DVD. The whole thing runs directly from the DVD and does nothing to alter your hard drive with Windows. When you're done using it, reboot the PC and remove the DVD, and you'll go right back to Windows. There should be software on this DVD to do anything you could ever think of.
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It really doesn't matter. Once you burn the CD, your music is digital and you can further process it however you wish. Just rip the CD to your hard drive.
If you're on a tight budget, here's a useful link for you. From this page you can download a self contained OS filled with free, open source software for AV creation and manipulation. All you need to do is download the file and burn it to a DVD. The whole thing runs directly from the DVD and does nothing to alter your hard drive with Windows. When you're done using it, reboot the PC and remove the DVD, and you'll go right back to Windows. There should be software on this DVD to do anything you could ever think of.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=08912