I finally found a friend with a real component stereo type cassette player; the line out is not amplified. So now I can plug the line out into the mic jack on his laptop and make a recording of what's on the cassette. I am using the latest version of Audacity.

My problem is that the incoming sound was so loud that the recording was of a low quality. Now, that doesn't really make sense since it's not amplified. But I could see in the Audacity display that the sound was too loud.

How can I solve this problem. How do I decrease the volume of the incoming audio.

I'm using the latest version of Audacity on a Windows IBM laptop.

Tom