Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:12:54 -0400
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Repair cheap casette player?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
>  Mike B. <omni at omniphile.com> wrote

>> You could probably get the tapes turned into CDs by
>> borrowing a player long enough to copy them.
>
> mp3s might be better, if you have a way to save them
> and also make new CDs from them as needed. But you
> still lose the analog quality. (we will not get into that argument)

MP3 is a compressed, lossy, format.  Make CDs, and then rip them and
make MP3s as needed, not the other way around.  CD quality is much
better than most MP3s, even to the ear...and some MP3s, where they've
compressed a bit too much, sound terrible.

If you record from tape, your digital recordings will preserve all the
hiss, warble, wow and flutter of the analog tape format, so no loss
there. ;-)

-- Mike B.