They were such a good buy, I almost bought a small lot of straw hats at a tag sale — but opted for the dollar box of ancient cassette tapes instead. Curious as to what I had, and needing a player, I bought a Sony boom box (CFD-E100) to play my treasures (and the few CDs thrown in for good measure).
After studying the Sony manual, I loaded up a cassette and happily listened to "Billie Holiday" sing a great song. I was very happy the old tape played so well (but then, what do I know, I'm not a music critic). Impressed that the tape hadn't disintegrated, I examined it carefully — it read, TDK SA90 Type II.
That made things dramatic because the Sony manual advised not to play or record with anything other than, "Type I" cassettes!
Where does that leave me? Will I wreck the tapes, the boom box, or both if I play my Type II tapes on my Type I deck?
I don't think you'll have any problems playing type I, II, III or IV tapes. This refers to the tape quality and what the cassette player's manufacturer has set their equipment bias and equalization settings to.
OF course to preserve the good order in which the cassetts are at present time to convrt them to CD.
The task may be lengthy but it is relatively simple and worth the effort and it is legal in the sense that you are making alegitimate backup.
All you need is a cassette player with an output connection even if it is only a headphones connection, a sound card with a line in socket, a lead and a copy of the free Audacity recorder.
Record track by track saving them as wav files if you have the hard drive space, or mp3 if not, a burner, blank cd and burning software. _________________ Take control of your life. Leave others to control their own.
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