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Over the years, I have built a huge collection of music in analog formats but have been slowly moving into the 21st century, building a collection of music on USB sticks. So far, most of the music I have gathered for these devices is from Youtube, converted to the MP3 format using a converter or with Audacity, and I have also ripped a few of my CD's.

However, I need to find a good method to digitize thousands of cassettes, 78's, 45's and 33's in my collection. A Zoom audio recorder that records onto a memory card appears to be a good method.

I'm lucky enough to live in an area that has a consortium of public libraries that,together,probably have 10,000 (or more) CDs. Their website is completely searchable by author (or artist,in the case of music),title,etc,etc. Using this website,and my CD burner,I was,over time,able to amass a 5,000+ collection of songs,all of which I like.

And now, having gotten them on CD,I can play them on my stereo and convert individual tracks into MP3 format for my phone and my car's hard drive.

So I get the best sound quality at home (CD,SACD and DVD-Audio have the best sound quality) and great music on my phone and in my car.

I love music enough to have the attitude "if it's good enough to own I'll own it in its most faithful form".

I have the same attitude with videos...no streaming for me.I want Goodfellas (and many,many other films) on my shelf and in its most faithful format....meaning bluray and 4K.

But others may disagree.

“However, I need to find a good method to digitize thousands of cassettes, 78’s, 45’s and 33’s in my collection”

I picked up a record player to digitize my brothers albums. A cassette player can be input to the computer.

I gave all my old media away, copied my CD’S to disk and subscribed to Amazon HD.