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I want to make an actual compact cassette mix-tape as a gift for someone. I use iTunes to manage all of my music.
So a few questions:
If I gather a bunch of songs on a playlist for sides A/B of the tape, how can I ensure that the volume for all songs is the same as it plays on the tape?
I was thinking of finding an old compact casette recorder and putting the single line sterio output of my Mac to the casette's microphone input. Is that a good way to record onto the actual tape?
How long is each side of a compact tape? Is there a default speed the tape plays at?
Let's say I want to mesh some songs together so that they will completely fill up one side of a tape (cut off 10 seconds off the end of one song or the beginning of another song), what's the best way to do that?
2At one time I knew this information from memory, but it was purged from active storage years ago. I now use Wikipedia as online swap for much of my memory. ;-) – Chris Nava – 2010-05-05T16:53:26.747
7Can I just say that I find it funny that you look on Wikipedia for how long a tape is... It's actually not funny, it's just a sign of my age that I consider that sort of knowledge second nature rather than something you'd look up. – Jon Hopkins – 2009-09-02T15:00:21.137