Tape to MP3 Player
Using Cassettes and Records with your Digital Music Player and iPod.
Watching my sixteen year old son mixing music favorites onto his iPod, brought me back to the good old days when I mixed my favorite records onto my own cassette tape "mixes".
You understand what fun the kids are having with their MP3 players, even if you don’t like their current music, when you remember how much satisfaction you had after putting together that cassette tape of your favorite mixes of all your favorite artists.
I personally had my favorite mixes of rock and jazz and of course my "best of" all my favorite artists.
If you are like me, you’ve kept these tapes and they are sitting in a closet somewhere, disintegrating away.
You're afraid to play them!
They are getting old but you cannot part with them because where could you find these songs again?
You also know the playing-order by memory. These tapes just can’t be replaced.
Some records are no longer in print, or you may have some live tapes of bands that no longer exist.
Sound familiar?
MP3's have saved the day, and its not too difficult to take those cherished tapes and get them on digital before they are gone forever.
You can use your computer to burn these onto CD’s or get them onto an MP3 player.
Don’t have an iPod or an MP3 player?
You know you should by now.
If you could mix tapes “back in the day”, you can certainly do it with today’s technology!.
I own an iPod Shuffle and plan on upgrading to an iPod Video very soon.
The advantage of owning an ipod is not only is the better sound quality.
The biggest advantage for me is the ability to always be able to mix and match.
Don’t like that song in the middle of the tape anymore?
You don’t have to listen to it. Just delete it out digitally.
There are various companies that offer products to convert your tapes to digital.
I used Media Digitalizer by Digitope.
You only need three things:
1. Your analog music player (Casette-tape player, record player, or even a 45 player)
2. Audio cable - If you're using the headphone port on your player, you'll need a standard 1/8 to 1/8 minijack audio cable . On older media players using the RCA output, you'll need a RCA to minijack cable . You may also need a 1/4 to 1/8 adapter.
3. Digitope Media Digitalizer,
(You can download a trial for free, or buy for $25.00 )
http://www.digitope.com/digitalizer/index.aspx
Just follow their instructions. It’s easy!
You just might find those old recording are worth the effort.
Christian Solo