Equipment needed to transfer small vinyl collection

I have 100 to 200 songs on vinyl that I'd like to transfer to an ipod to play through a car stereo. I'd like to use Apple Lossless encoding. Only equipment I have now is a MacBook 10.5.8 with 2GHz Intel processor and 2GB memory. Recommendation please for: Turntable - built in preamp or usb output? Software to correct vinyl flaws. Is the Griffin imic the best way to go? Ipod model - do they all have the random selection feature? Car audio head unit - what type of input connection should it have? Thank you..

maybe this helps:
Zevoneer wrote:
One way is to connect your turntable (through the Tape out sockets of your amplifier) to the audio in socket of your computer and record the input. On the computer you'll need audio editing software to capture and edit the resulting long file into individual tracks that can be added to the iTunes Library. There are a number of commercial programs for this (I use Sound Studio for the Mac but there are many other programs. If want to try out the process first you could try the open source program Audacity which has Linux, Mac and Windows versions at this link: Audacity
In addition to the software you'll need RCA to 3.5 mm audio plug cables to connect the Tape Out sockets of your amplifier to the audio inputs of your computer. There's a short guide to recording here: How to record from vinyl and cassette to a computer also from the BBC Copying Vinyl Recordings to CD
You could also have a look at the Griffin iMic which connects to a USB port on your computer rather than audio in and comes with some software of it's own: iMic USB audio interface
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