Ways to connect a cassette tape deck to ProBook 4530s

I have an old cassette tape deck I want to use to load some music from cassettes to C, burning this on my ProBook 4530s. I have ROXIO software to mabage the transfer, but if iTuneds, ertcv. can do it well lik to know this too.
The problem I have with ROXIO is the adapter that takes the RCA cables from the cassette deck, and uses their Video Capture USB (it is used for video and audio) has a pin-type female connector, where my ProBook USB inputs are a slide-in type flat contacts. I cannot push the USB connection into the Probook USB port(s).
So, I need a way to use existing ProBook 4530s inputs to transfer/burn the music on the cassettes to the CD output on the ProBook. Maybe use the 3.5mm headphone jack as the input? But then not sure if the ROXIO software will notice it.

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