2oldman wrote:
Gdetrailer wrote:
Pretty much any LEGIT "commercial service" WILL REFUSE to copy any COMMERCIAL recorded material due to COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT..
It's NOT hard to find ones that WILL.
Sure, you CAN find some fly by night outfits which will GLADLY TAKE YOUR MONEY AND GIVE YOU AN INFERIOR COPY OF AN INFERIOR SOURCE..
Each copy generation causes the QUALITY to go further into the dumpster..
Cassettes and 8 tracks start out pretty much IN THE DUMPSTER as far as sound quality and noise goes..
It is YOUR MONEY to throw into that dumpster if you like but in reality pretty much most of the music you have on those formats ARE readily available on CDs already AT A REASONABLE COST..
Consider this, you will most likely pay a third party easily $5-$10 for each tape, they will give you a BURNED CD in return. They will use your worn out, stretched tapes with dropouts, tape noise and high wow and flutter and cheap CONSUMER quality equipment and signal processing.
You can often find the same albums already PRESSED on CD for $5-$10 each and they use the ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDINGS AND TOP NOTCH PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT during the entire process.
There is a huge difference..
The only possible exception I can think of is if it is a one off or non released album.. One I can think of is Dire Straights Brothers in Arms, the cassette version contains special extended length songs.. The record did not, it had the standard length songs instead, not sure which version they may have released for CD..