the always-interesting (to me anyway) Boing-Boing site had this item a while back:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/14/cassette_tape_ripper.html The Firebox Plus Deck Cassette Converter is a $130 cassette deck for your PC that comes with software for easily converting your tapes to MP3s digital audio files (the deck even has auto-reverse!). I have a TON of stuff on cassette that I've been struggling with -- there are services that will rip tapes, but they're not cheap, and when I look at things like out-of-print audiobooks that come on 18 tapes, I just can't justify spending hundreds of dollars on ripping them, but I don't want to toss them out either. When I finally get my tapes out of storage, I am *so* getting one of these. Update: Many have written to point out that the player doesn't record to MP3, just WAVs, and that you have to do a lot of futzing to get it to work right. then it directs you to http://www.firebox.com/product/1700?src_t=wnw¤cy_conversion=1 _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
