From the 1970's through the '90's compact cassettes were the
most popular form of audio available. Also known as audio
cassettes, cassette tapes, or just plain tapes. While eventually
becoming a popular choice for all audio media, the cassette was
originally made for taking dictation, but the improvement in
audio quality and portability made the cassette a favorite with
everyone, young and old. Once CD's were introduced, the quality
was found to be far superior to cassettes, and there are many
reasons to transfer your collection of 1980's music cassettes
onto CD's. Many of the albums that you may have on cassette are
out of print, hard to find or simply impossible to recreate
concert bootleg recordings you made in your teen years. Another
reason is that archiving will preserve the quality and keep your
music library full of the old tunes. Not that we said preserve
the quality of your cassettes. Transferring your tapes onto a CD
won't improve the audio quality, a CD is only as good as the
source. Tapes become