Monday, October 11, 2010
Calling All Cassette Players
I have tons of cassettes. Seriously, I have at least a suit case full of nothing but cassette tapes. Some of these tapes are rare and hard to find tapes from the 70's and 80's. A few of them are me when I was a baby, a toddler, when I was in drama as a kid, and as a teenager with some friends. A bunch of them are tapes from band practices that I was involved in throughout the years. Some are just me with a guitar running through some song ideas. Either way, there is a lot of history and memories on these tapes. The problem is, cassette tapes and players went the way of the dodo bird. They are hard to find or altogether extinct. Technology has progressed enough to allow me to convert these cassette tapes to digital format with a $5 cord from Radio Shack and some free software from the internet (Audacity). The only missing piece? I don't have a cassette player. I went online to see if I could pick one up from Amazon. I searched up and down on Amazon. They are still available, but they aren't cheap for an extinct technology. You can get an old Sony Walkman Cassette player for anywhere between $50 and $300. You can get a portable boombox for about $30 to $100. They even make cassette players that are made to convert old tapes, like the Ion Audio USB Portable Tape-To-MP3 Player for $47.89 on Amazon. But, that still seems like a lot of money. I just want a reliable cassette player that has either RCA out or a headphone jack that I can input a stereo patch cord between the player and my laptop's microphone jack. I'd even take an old, used one if I could find one. Does anyone have an old cassette player laying around that they want to donate to my digital audio archiving project?
Labels:
Needs,
Technology
2 comments:
Yard Sales!!!!!
Chris, I have an old boom box. It plays cassette tapes in two locations and has a CD line in and out. It's a Panasonic. Call me!
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