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Re: [ARSCLIST] rehousing audio cassettes
We have all bought prerecorded cassettes that have been either still factory sealed,or otherwise unplayed for years,that have had big,random gaps where the music has been erased.
Roger
--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] rehousing audio cassettes
> To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 8:52 PM
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine"
> <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Hi Richard:
> > I very much agree with you that all magnetic tapes are
> finite, so anything of value on them should be transferred
> as the clock is always ticking.
> >
> In fact...I have hundreds of "cassettes"...even
> including a handful of VERY early
> Philips cassettes, bought at the PX in Garmisch, Germany in
> 1967 (when that
> was the only brand available...!). All of them seem to play
> as well as they EVER
> did...! I'm hoping to connect the "Line Out"
> on a cassette deck I own to the
> "Line In" on my sound card...a cheap (and dirty?)
> method of digitizing my
> cassette holdings...!
>
> Steven C. Barr