Ready, Cassette, Go!
Over the past thirty years I've owned thousands of albums, either as records, cassettes, or CDs; about 95% of those, I currently have in MP3 format. Most of the early records I owned were later repurchased as cassettes, most of which were again repurchased on CD. I've spent the past year or so converting my 1,200+ CDs over to MP3 format. It's a fairly painless process involving very little talent thanks to lots of one-click software solutions, but it's still somewhat time consuming.
Unfortunately, not everything I own made its way to CD. What I have left at this point is a large box of cassette tapes. About half of them are tapes I made as a kid by recording songs off the radio. The other half are cassettes I purchased from local bands that never released their music onto CD.
A couple of days ago I drug one of my old cassette decks out of the closet and connected it up to my PC's soundcard with a pair of RCA cables. I'm now in the process of dubbing each of these cassette tapes into the computer, converting into MP3s one by one. After I'm finished I plan on using some software (probably DartPro or eJay Music Cleaning Studio) to clean up the hiss, pops and cracks from the old recordings before permanently filing them away. For the old tapes that I actually made by recording songs off the radio, I'm scanning in a picture of each cassette with my flatbed scanner; for the band cassettes, I'm scanning in the album artwork as well. Once I have all these in the computer, I can't think of a reason to keep all these old tapes around any longer.
But, I probably will.
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