Going Backwards

Published by Toronto Mike on May 15, 2005 @ 13:32 in Family, Technology

James enjoys music and I thought it was time he has own stereo so he could play his tunes whenever he wants. He's only three, so I knew anything I gave him could be destroyed. Initially, my plan was to give him a low-end CD player, but I quickly realized the best player for his needs might be a good old fashioned cassette tape player. I happened to have an old one lying around and now it belongs to James.

The next step was getting James' music onto cassette. This is where we go backwards in a round about way, converting the new technology to the old. The entire process makes me laugh, so I thought I'd share it here.

The songs begin as MP3 files on my computer.
I burn James' desired MP3 files to CD.
I play the newly created audio CD on my DVD player.
My old stereo I bought as a teenager, which happens to have a cassette deck, is connected to this DVD player via the line-in jack. With the audio CD playing, I record the feed on the cassette deck.
James' music is now on a cassette tape and can be played on his stereo.

From 2005 to 1985 using equipment lying around the house, sometimes you've got to go backwards.

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