Haunted by Old Record Albums?
If you're under 40, stop here. This newsletter is directed towards the Boomers and beyond - those of us who have been through more technologies than you can shake an 8 track at. Okay, let's just go with music:
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Record albums
Cassettes
CDs
MP3
Something else I'm sure I don't know about.
It's hard to win the technology game. But it's even harder to deal with all those fantastic record albums that are currently gathering dust and gosh knows what else in your basement.
Here are two suggestions. Number one, get those albums digitized. There are a variety of ways to do this, but they all involve hooking a turntable up to a computer and having some sort of computer application convert them to MP3 files.
For those us who are less technologically adept, there are systems you can buy that just involve plugging an advanced sort of turntable into your computer. Here's an example.
Okay, now you've got the means to save the music. What about all those cool album covers?
Enter the handy record album cover frame. Again here's just one example. There are many others. Basically it's a frame that fits your album perfectly and protects the cover as well. You just slide the album in and presto! Art work. And it's very easy to remove an album and put in another. So if you're going through your Joni Mitchell phase, you can hang all those perfectly horrible paintings she did for her albums. Then when you're feeling a little Sgt. Pepperish, slide those babies out, and slide in the Beatles. Just get rid of the album covers that don't do anything for you and keep a nice collection of album art that speaks to your inner teen.
Don't forget - I'm always up for helping you organize your albums.
And your cassettes. And your CDs. But count me out on the 8-tracks - I just don't want to go there...
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