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Freezey:
speaking of mixtapes, does anyone have any tricks to getting a good (or at least decent) quality of recording? The only thing I've gotton a good recording from was cranking my computer speakers way up and using the only thing I have to record cassettes (an old childrens radio shack tape player); and I can only do that without threat of death from the other people in this house on Mondays for about thirty minutes.

I'd normally just use cd's, but my alarm clock only does radio or cassette. The college station plays this awesome jazz show on thursday mornings which works like a charm, but on days like tuesday it's just talk radio that won't wake me at all.

KharBevNor:
@Freezey: Don't you have a stereo system with both CD and cassette? If so, most of them can record straight from the CD just by pressing the record button whilst on CD mode then playing the CD. Some even start the CD for you when you press record.

I'd imagine a similiar thing could be done by using audio-cable to connect the speaker port of your PC to the tape recorders microphone slot and then playing the CD in your PC and recording the speaker feed, though there might be technical problems in that: I've been having insane trouble trying to get my PC to record off my guitar amps emulated line-out.

a pack of wolves:
I love mixtapes, just sent off one to someone on another forum so I'm eager to get going on another. It's pretty cheap to send one to the US, I've done it a few times so don't worry about that. Mix CDs aren't nearly as good though, they have so much less passion put into them. Mixtapes need care and attention, CDs are just too damn easy.

As for the legality, it's quite possibly legal since no money is changing hands and totally legal if you're doing stuff by people who don't care about copyright crap, and even if it isn't there's absolutely no chance of ever getting into trouble over it so who cares?

Long live the tape trade!

Inlander:
The legality question isn't so much about whether we get in trouble, as it is about using Jeph's forum (yes, Jeph's forum) to advocate illegal acts.  Not fun for him, not fun for us.

a pack of wolves:
Good point.

Well, I've been trading tapes for many years now and I've never heard of anyone or anything getting in trouble for it. One site I frequent even has a dedicated tape trade section of the forum, it's very blatant. I'd say Jeph was very, very safe.

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