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Music is my life!! I have 51,000 records, so far.
In `89, I finally bought myself an open reel ape deck!! I've wanted one since the early `70's. I decided a LONG time before that when I get one, I'm going to copy all of my 45's to reel. so, I started doing that in `89. Recorded nearly 200 reels!! Some nights I'd do 2 reels a night!! (7") After about 3 or 4 years of doing it, the deck died and I did a few cassettes instead, then I bought a CD burner and was going to continue on CD and eventually do it all all over again onto CD. I decided to pull one reel out and play some of it to copy to CD. The reel WAS brand new when I started using it!! The first time I tried to play it, the oxide started to melt onto the tape heads and guides!! After the first 5 minutes, this squeal began and got louder and louder until it was all you could hear, then, after 20 minutes, the tape deck couldn't deal with it anymore and stopped!! The oxide had built up so much it was refusing to let the tape run freely anymore!! All that work, hundreds of hours I put into that project and it was a total waste!!!! NOTHING was salvageable!!!! I found a very small pre-amp that I could plug straight into the computer from the turntable and recorded lost of stuff for that project onto a hard drive!! Don't ya know, the turntable went bad on me!! I think one of the hard drives also went very screwy on me, then I got the turntable fixed and the cartridge went bad on me!!!! I guess I'm just not allowed to record!!!! :-( One of these days I'll get a new cartridge and get back to work on that. I still have a few thousand records I've never heard yet!! But, the new computer (it's only a year old and I hardly ever use it!) is starting to give me all kinds of problems on my recording projects!!

You should probably think about recording those records onto a blue-ray disk. Seems strange, of all the media we play around with, tapes fail, hard drives crash. Even CD`s & DVD`s eventually fail. But, the original mass public recording media seems to stand the test of time. I have a few singles from when my mother was a teenager, but nothing on tape has survived. and I have also lost quite a media files on hard drives over the years.