In case you didn’t realize, all audio cassette tapes are the same size and shape, but there are a variety of different kinds of audio cassettes based on the way they were made. If audio cassettes weren’t so easy to steal, the actual sales numbers could have completely dominated vinyl until the CD player came along.

The tapes were so small, portable and easy to use in a Walkman that they went head-to-head with vinyl over music sales. Mass production started in the mid-1960s (the Beatles had five Top 40 singles out around the time of the Vietnam War) and they were not just for recording mix tapes. In its heyday, the audio cassette was incredibly popular before portable CD and mp3 players took over the music business. When we convert audio to digital, we also provide downloadable mp3 files via your private, password protected website so you can share individual tracks, or import them into your iTunes library for easy playback. If your audio tape has labeling, we can split tracks AND save the titles for each one before we return your audio recordings on a CD. We can even split the music tracks on your tape, allowing you to skip songs in your iPod or car. Our audio technicians see A LOT of “mix tapes” from that era, because who are we kidding, most people have made some form of a mix tape at some point in their life! Our audio cassette to CD transfer service records both sides of your tapes to digital. The cassette tape started a cultural boom in the 1970s and 1980s.

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