Do you have any audio cassettes still laying around?

[yoda313]

I do. Quite a few actually. Some newer ones I've even picked up in garage sales (new as in late 90s I think - for example the Drops of Jupiter album by TRAIN).

I'm slowly making cd's and/or mp3's out of them. Its nice to resurrect them instead of just buying the cd. Why plop down 10 bucks when you got a decent copy laying around???

[bgclarke]

I've got close to 300 commercial cassettes that I have purchased over the years.

I need to take my Yamaha 3 head cassette deck in for a tuneup before I digitize some of them.

[Guest]

I 86'd mine(500) a few years back.

[davideck]

I still have mine from high school and college...great old stuff. I keep them at work and pop one in whenever I feel inspired or just can't stand the news.

[SquirrelDip]

I 86'd mine(500) a few years back.

Mee toooo... (maybe not 500 tho)

Used to have a Nakamichi Dragon but sold it years ago.

[enstg8er]

yes, many. only ones i record. i've never bought a tape unless it was blank. i copy my cd's and albums for my truck cassette deck.

Used to have a Nakamichi Dragon but sold it years ago.

i still use mine........

[doppletwo]

I have my cassettes I listened to in high school. I didn't switch to cd until 1998 or 1999. I am cheap and didn't the point in paing five dollars extra for cds. Plus most cd walkmans sucked back then unless you paid like $200-300, and I listened to 90% of my music on a walkman.


I might copy some of them, that I can't find on cd (some underground stuff). I have already bought or copied the cd's of most of the ones I care to have.

[zzyzzx]

I still haven't unpacked my cassette deck from my move two years ago. I am not sure if I am going to.

[Sifaga]

i got hundreds dating back to the late 70's

its great to pop one in and reminisce

[offline]

I'm just amazed you can still buy tapes these days - I guess many people with old cars still use their cassette decks.

[Cole]

I have lots of tapes of radio shows that I have recorded off air or bought commercially. I have managed to convert about half of them to CD so far; the only tape deck I own is connected to my PC anyway.

[gll99]

Kind of a side note but a few weeks ago a well dressed suit and tie fellow was in "The source" aka Radio Shack and I overheard him ask the clerk for blank casette tapes. He said he wanted to record something for a court case and that only an analogue tape would be admissible as evidence because any cuts or splices would be caught right away. He said that a digital recording because it's too easy to tamper with wouldn't be accepted as evidence in court.

I guess there is still some use for analogue recording after all

[yoda313]

Wow thats interesting gll99. So that means the courts will enforce Maxell and all the other media producers to MAKE audio cassettes for eternity then! (not to mention the tape recorder producers )

[MackemX]

Wow thats interesting gll99. So that means the courts will enforce Maxell and all the other media producers to MAKE audio cassettes for eternity then! (not to mention the tape recorder producers )

that's a silly rule surely as you could just record in high quality, edit it and then play it back, recording on analogue tape

[Dv8ted2]

I have about 40 audio casettes that sit around in a box. Maybe some day I will finally throw them away.

[gll99]

Wow thats interesting gll99. So that means the courts will enforce Maxell and all the other media producers to MAKE audio cassettes for eternity then! (not to mention the tape recorder producers )

that's a silly rule surely as you could just record in high quality, edit it and then play it back, recording on analogue tape

Hey guys I don't make up the news I just eavesdrop and report it.

Although a bit loose lipped about his intentions, it didn't sound like a put on so there must be something to it.

[iLuvLandingStrips]

I do. Quite a few actually. Some newer ones I've even picked up in garage sales (new as in late 90s I think - for example the Drops of Jupiter album by TRAIN).

I'm slowly making cd's and/or mp3's out of them. Its nice to resurrect them instead of just buying the cd. Why plop down 10 bucks when you got a decent copy laying around???

Depends what you mean by a decent copy.
If you mean copies that have lots of noise and no mids, and don't care about sound quality then it's a fantastic idea.

[Supreme2k]

Kind of a side note but a few weeks ago a well dressed suit and tie fellow was in "The source" aka Radio Shack and I overheard him ask the clerk for blank casette tapes. He said he wanted to record something for a court case and that only an analogue tape would be admissible as evidence because any cuts or splices would be caught right away. He said that a digital recording because it's too easy to tamper with wouldn't be accepted as evidence in court.

Not sure if you're from Canada (Canadian Tundra?), but digital recordings of any kind are fully admissable in the U.S. (California,at least). I've done production work on many court cases, ranging from criminal to custody and business, and both video and audio were accepted in all forms (mp3, mov, wmv, wav, etc.) Once, I even had to yank some files and convert from a Creative Nomad II (That one was funny, since the plaintiff said "I'm recording you" and the defendant says "Go ahead! What ya gonna do?", then tries to get it stricken on the grounds that it was obtained without his permission.)