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Play Your Old Cassettes on an iPod

by Terrence O'Brien on September 13, 2007 at 03:24 PM

Play Your Old Cassettes on an iPod

Many of us have piles of cassettes laying around -- relics of days in which you expressed love by way of the mix tape and in which "stealing music" meant dubbing a friend's copy of 'Night Moves.' But, the rise of the digital revolution has relegated these magnetic mementos to storage bins under our beds.

Sometimes, though, a little bit of nostalgia takes hold and listening to those old cassettes can be a very satisfying experience. The problem is that many of us ditched our cassette players long ago. Thankfully, there's a company waiting to cash in on your inability to part with the past.

Send Cassettes2CDs your old tapes and the company will dump them onto a CD or straight to MP3 for easy loading on your iPod. The tracks are split, titled, tagged and "volume maximized" if a little on the quiet side. And if the tape won't play, Cassettes2CDs fixes it for free.

Cassettes2CDs offers prepaid mailers in the continental U.S., with prices starting at $79 for a package of 10 tapes. And despite the name, the service will do the same for your old LPs and 45s.

From Retro Thing

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