As a christmas gift to asdr83's parents I helped her set up her old laptop to record audio from her parent's records and clean it up with Audacity, then dump to CD. I remember doing something similar with some cassette tapes about 7 years ago. It's important to convert some of that older material, both because there's no sense buying it twice, and because, as you point out, there's some of it that just *can't be found* anymore. It made an excellent gift to see her mother's face when we started playing her old 'Artichokes' album on CD...