Comments on: Cassette to MP3 Project

By: Zerbinator

Zerbinator — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:59:28 +0000

I am very happy to have been a part of the nostalgia taking place. One thing I did that I loved, I recorded a tape back in 1990 in my home town whilst walking my dog one evening. I walked all over my neighborhood, to the store, up to the school, and by my library. Before we moved in 2012, I took that exact same route while listening to the old tape I converted into MP3. It was amazing how much everything changed in 22 years. It was very cool. This is something I highly suggest everyone do. Record a walk around your town/neighborhood, then time capsule that thing, and take that walk again about 10 to 20 later. You will be amazed how much can change.

By: Christopher Tupa

Christopher Tupa — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:43:02 +0000

Hey Rob, great post! Love the mp3s!!! I have some Star Wars read-along tapes I need to transfer, thanks for the idea!!

By: Tim L

Tim L — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:59:15 +0000

I did this a few summers ago (http://goo.gl/GfxZMf) and it was worth every second of the time it took. You won’t regret it.

By: punkle jones

punkle jones — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:23:10 +0000

From someone who was finally forced to throw those things away, thanks for ripping these and putting some up for download. The cassette quality alone takes me back, but the ’80’s pop radio dj’s and production are so bad they’re good. Anyway, thanks for going to the trouble.

By: ubikuberalles

ubikuberalles — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:01:17 +0000

I need to get back to transferring my tapes and albums to MP3. I started the cassette thing six or seven years ago, got maybe a half dozen tapes transferred and then slowly stopped. I don’t think I even got that far with my LP collection. I think the trick for me is to do one or two a day and just keep up the habit of day by day. I have about 90 albums to transfer and maybe 20-30 cassettes to transfer. that’s a lot but if I only do 2 maybe 3 a week I’ll be done in a year.

My main incentive is to transfer albums that have never made it to CD or MP3. My most recent LP acquisition is Paul Kantner’s “Planet Earth’s Rock and Roll Orchestra” album. Good stuff and it is not available on CD or MP3. I converted it to MP3 within a couple hours of opening it. Then I stopped. I should have kept going as, like I said, I have many more albums to record.

I think you inspired me.

By: Eduard

Eduard — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:59:51 +0000

Just a few days ago I was talking with my wife to transfer the contents of her huge collection of cassettes to MP3. My 6 years-old son heard us, and he asked me: “Daddy, what is a cassette?” Gosh, I felt sooooooo old…