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Friday December 15, 2006
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I'll always look back fondly on those nights in the late '80s, early '90s when I'd stay up making my favorite mix tapes with an old cassette recorder. Deee-lite and her groove may currently reside in my heart and iPod, but I can now grab those old tapes from storage and give them new life with the Plus Deck Cassette Converter from Firebox.com.
The cassette resurrection occurs on the PC, where you install the full logic, front loading, cassette converter, editor, and player. Simply fit it in any spare 5.25" bay of your computer and M.C. Hammer, Vanilla Ice mixes come back to life in all their bootleg glory. Using the conversation software you can transfer your music to MP3 format and start archiving away.
The Plus Deck Cassette Converter sells for $129.95, but a pencil for reeling in mangled tape is sold separately.
Post by Andre Bermudez
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December 18, 2006 1:19 PM
I LOVE this thing. I don't own one, but I've been clamoring for one since I first saw one a few years ago-I have so many old cassette tapes and old mix tapes that I'd love to rock out with on my iPod, and even better, archive digitally so I don't have to worry about those tapes deteriorating.
I kept telling myself that a tape deck connected to the audio-in jack of my soundcard could do just as well, but this just might be cooler. (and more lossless than the previous option!)
December 20, 2006 9:37 PM
Is one for a laptop coming soon?
December 21, 2006 7:53 AM
Go to a garage sale and get a cassette deck (and a record turntable while you're at it) and record using Audacity. Why pay $130??
December 21, 2006 8:26 PM
Use audacity. Most likely your old tapes won't even play, giving screeches and other old age signs. I still have a tape deck and a turntable, and already digitized a lot of old LPs. Most of the tapes don't play, as I mentioned, but they were mostly tapes of LPs. The LPs were only played once or twice so they were pretty good. Perhaps Firebox has some magic to help those old stretched and dried out tapes?
Grins
January 14, 2007 9:10 PM
It is really too bad this is not Mac compatible.