Controlling the environmental conditions where your tapes are stored is key to their longevity.

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Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

If you grew up between the 1960s and 1980s, audio cassette tapes were almost certainly a big part of your life. Any tape collections you might have had probably included prerecorded music by your ...

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If you have shelves packed with DVDs and Blu-rays or boxes full of VHS tapes, CDs, cassette tapes, and records, you probably ...

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I have some ultra rare cassette tapes that I would like to digitize. My question is, what's the best way of doing this, if say, I'm willing to spend 100-200$ on the project? My PC obviosly has a mic ...

I have some old tapes that are pretty shagged, basically - cleaning the tape heads and twiddling the azimuth hasn't helped. I already know how to remove tape hiss and background, I was just wondering ...

My previous daily driver was a 2000 VW Beetle that I inherited from my mom, and the only way to listen to pre-recorded music was by inserting a tape into the stereo. That prompted me to buy a few ...

They're usually sitting in a shoe box under the bed next to old baseball cards and that one letter from an ex you meant to get rid of. Dozens of old cassette tapes in and outside of cases, with ...