{"id":6162,"date":"2011-11-17T21:51:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T05:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2011-11-18T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T18:39:44","slug":"how-to-conver-you-old-taps-and-records-to-high-quality-digital-for-25-apple-matc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/how-to-conver-you-old-taps-and-records-to-high-quality-digital-for-25-apple-matc\/","title":{"rendered":"How to convert you old taps and records to high quality digital for $25 using Apple Match"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I know this was never Apples intention, but with iTunes Match, you can take your analog music and convert it to high quality digital for $25.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 First, digitize your old stuff.\u00a0 I recommend buying an old but good quality tape player (Or record player if you have vinyl). You also need a RCA to 1\/8 phone jack. You can get these pretty much at any audio store, radioshack, etc. There are quite a few programmes out there that will convert the music to mp3, a few that will label them correctly for you.<\/p>\n

Now, sign up for itunes music match.\u00a0 Its only $25 a year.\u00a0 Not bad . What will happen is itunes will upload all of your music ( or a sample) and look to see if they already have that song in their library.\u00a0 You should have a list of songs that were ‘found’ and match on the system.<\/p>\n

Now, ONLY delete the songs that have been found.\u00a0 What will happen is itunes will notice that your local copy is gone, and will download a digital and thus far better copy then you had from tape!\u00a0 Win!<\/p>\n

The only issue on my side is I have a lot of music that is pretty unknown, so I’m only expecting a 75% match rate at best, but hey, 75% of CD quality is better then 100% at cassette quality. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Now full disclosure here, I have not done it yet. A friend of mine did and says it works.\u00a0 I have LOTS of tapes and my last tape player broke in transit, so I still need to find a tape player, but I’m pretty sure this is going to work.\u00a0 I’ll report back after I’ve converted my tape.\u00a0 But don’t hold your breath, I have LOTS of tapes.<\/p>\n

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