I finally tried digitizing my dad's old mix tapes from the 80s

I used to just pop a cassette into my Walkman and press play, but last month I bought a cheap USB converter on Amazon for $18 to save them as MP3s. Has anyone else found that the sound quality drops way off when you try to speed through the conversion?

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patricia424mo ago

Cranked up the converter and ended up with what sounds like my dad yelling from the bottom of a swimming pool... I swear the cheap thing just eats half the audio while it's running. The funny thing is I spent more time trying to fix the pops and hisses than I did actually listening to the songs. My old mix tapes deserved better than my $18 impulse buy I guess.

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william8164mo ago

@patricia42 Dude, that's exactly what happened to me last month. I picked up this $20 USB converter and it turned my tapes into garbled underwater noise too. Ended up spending more time cleaning up pops and clicks than actually saving the music, what a mess.

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