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If you can recollect when audio cassettes were viewed as cutting edge, you probably taped record albums on them while marveling at the resulting technological leap forward: being able to while travel about while privately listening to music through a player that wasn’t much larger than the cassette itself. And that most likely means you’ve got a stack of cassettes slowly decomposing in some back closet!

It goes without saying that you’re emotionally tied to the cassettes. The music on them not only is a representation of your memories, but is an emblem of a time when musicianship and talent were valued because that was the only way a musical act could endure. But naturally, audio cassettes can also hold other items of the past: speeches, meetings, conference calls, interviews, verbal letters.

Also, it isn’t your oversight that the cassette players you originally owned don’t work any more – they’ve just succumbed to extreme maturity. But even if getting a replacement cassette player didn’t necessitate a major online search, you are too scared to risk playing your cassettes on them – they, too, are too old and infirm from overuse and neglect.

It hasn’t been difficult to bring your audio cassette tapes into the Internet age if you could manage the cost. There are recording agencies that will transfer your cassettes into audio files that can be used on MP3 and CD players. But it can involve sending the cassettes to and from them at your expense, and the charge usually exceeds what it would cost to replace each cassette with a retail CD- the musical cassettes, that is.

But just as technology has evolved from from the boom box to the Walkman to the iPod, converting a cassette to CD or MP3 is now much less of a logistical or financial deterrent. There are now a selection of hardware and software that allow you to perform audio cassette conversion to MP3 or CD yourself. But you need to look around for the best system.

Some are full-fledged tape decks while others are not much larger than Walkmans. Some require that you join a music downloading service. Some need batteries and have to be plugged in; others are powered by your computer. Some use a single USB cable connection, others use a series of radio plugs. And of course, some are compatible with Macintoshes, PCs, or both.

Luckily, there’s a very simple way to sort all of them out: Go to http://www.tapeconversioncentral.com/cassette-to-cd-mp3. Here’s why:

Tape Conversion Central is where it’s easy to educate yourself about audio cassette conversion. You’ll find information about how to go from cassette to CD or MP3, and audio cassette converters such as the Casette2USB system, which is simple to use, carry around, and most vital, to afford!