old cassettesl-throw away or not

[goofyme]

cleaning out storage area...hundreds of cassettes that i never listen to..should i just do it and throw them away....help me!

 

[Beth76]

Do you have garage sales? You could list them for $.50 and make a bundle.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Or take them to the local HalfPrice Books..you won't make a bundle, but you'll be getting rid of them.

TOV

 

[Pooh67_68]

We sold all of ours at our local flea market this past spring. People are still interested in them so I wouldn't throw them away.

 

[Rootskate]

Im sure in not the only one still riding around with a tape deck in my car!

I would try to sell them if I were you.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I'm in the same predicament with a lot of old cassettes. I let DD8 use them, she doesn't seem to mind the rewinding and it saves my CDs from being scratched.

I finally let all my LPs go at a yard sale - a DJ bought the whole box for something ridiculous like $10. DH still laughs that he practically had to hold me back while the guy was walking off with the box, LOL, but at least I know he probably put them to good use.

 

[Chim Chiminy]

Ebay?

They pop up there now and then.

 

[Chipperdini]

I occasionally still purchase cassettes of music I can't get on CD or as a cheap method of acquiring older music, so if I were you I'd either give them away or sell them cheap (ebay, yard sale, pawn shop, swap shop, etc).

If it's music we wish to keep, we burn the cassettes to CD, save the inserts and then throw the tapes away.

Oh, as an aside - if a cassette tape doesn't play or play well, oftentimes you can solve the problem by simply putting the tape into a different case

 

[sweet angel]

Enlighten me...how do you burn cassettes onto CD? I have cases and cases of old cassettes that I can't part with, yet never listen to.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

LOL, sweet angel, glad you asked - I was wondering the same thing.

 

[Chipperdini]

Enlighten me...how do you burn cassettes onto CD?

We use a tape deck (or record player, etc.) and a CD recorder/burner. I don't know how things work technically, but it's the same kind of thing as recording records to tape and such. It's a copy, but the music still sounds fine - even better, actually, IMO.

 

[sweet angel]

You mean like how we used to put the tape recorder next to the radio to tape songs????

 

[Chipperdini]

You mean like how we used to put the tape recorder next to the radio to tape songs????

Next to the radio? No, I didn't even realize people did that.

I'm really quite technically and electronically ignorant, but I'll do what I can to be clearer.

If I'm not mistaken, to record from a cassette tape to a CD, one needs some form of tape deck, a receiver (I *think* but not absolutely positive 'cause I simply don't know much about this stuff) and something that can record/burn onto CDs that can be hooked up together with whatever cables/cords or whatever such requires. We play the tape on the tape player and record it onto a CD in the CD recorder and I *think* it goes through the receiver from the tape deck to the CD recorder.

I think there's a way to "speed-dub" or whatever like we've done in the past copying one tape to another tape, but we usually burn the CDs in "real time".

Have you ever recorded a song from the radio or a reel-to-reel or 8 track or cassette or record or laser disc or video cassette or your own voice or whatever directly through your stereo system? It's all the same sort of thing, as far as I comprehend.

We have a Pioneer Compact Disc Recorder PDR-509. DH finds it easy to use, and we've both been satisfied with the results. I'm sorry, but I'm unable to explain any better. Surely someone who knows more about this could be more helpful in answering any questions you may have. I know it's not rocket science, but then, I have difficulty remembering how to change the vacuum bag in my sweeper.

 

[aprilgail2]

I would sell them on Ebay...I recently came across a bunch of them in my closet and sold them on ebay for 50.00 plus they paid 31.00 to have them shipped to them!

 

[Micca]

If you don't have the music in some other form, I think it would be fun to pack the tapes and an inexpensive player away in a box to be opened in 10 or 20 years. There will come a time when you won't find a player anymore, and you'll have a good time reminiscing.

 

[MNmom2]

I would sell them on Ebay...I recently came across a bunch of them in my closet and sold them on ebay for 50.00 plus they paid 31.00 to have them shipped to them!

Did you list out all of the cassettes and sell them all on one auction? May I ask what you started the bidding out at? TIA!

 

[fostrmom2mny]

I got rid of all of mine several years back when we bought our Ford Excursion that came with a cd player. When I changed jobs, and gasoline went up, we bought a Taurus for better gas mileage, and it has only a cassette player.
Now I have been trying to get some of my cassette collection back up. All of my Disney music are cd's, can't find any of them on cassette.
So yes, there are people out there like me that are still in the cassette market.
Gerri

 

[bigolive9]

I took a few to half price books with some cds I didn't want.

 

[Imzadi]

If you don't have the music in some other form, I think it would be fun to pack the tapes and an inexpensive player away in a box to be opened in 10 or 20 years. There will come a time when you won't find a player anymore, and you'll have a good time reminiscing.

Unfortunately the tapes will degrade by then & may be unplayable.

I got rid of all of mine several years back when we bought our Ford Excursion that came with a cd player. When I changed jobs, and gasoline went up, we bought a Taurus for better gas mileage, and it has only a cassette player.
Now I have been trying to get some of my cassette collection back up. All of my Disney music are cd's, can't find any of them on cassette.
So yes, there are people out there like me that are still in the cassette market.
Gerri

They have cassette adapters to play cds in cars off your cassette player.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005T39Y/qid=1136705944/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3985505-4427912?n=507846&s=electronics&v=glance

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006JPFU/qid=1136705944/sr=8-3/ref=pd_bbs_3/104-3985505-4427912?n=507846&s=electronics&v=glance

 

[WatchinCaptKangaroo]

If your tape player has an output jack you can buy an adapter and run a cord from your output to the computer and then copy the tapes to CD that way. You can also do that with a record player.