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The compact audio cassette tape was introduced in Europe by Philips in 1963 and the United States the following year. Despite having other magnetic tape cartridge systems during it’s release, the compact disc became dominant due to the fact that it was licensed as a format free of charge. It soon became the popular alternative to Long-playing records. It was not until 1964 though, that the cassette tape was put into mass production as prerecorded music cassettes. In 1971, Advent Corporation designed and released a tape deck which reduced noise; thereby increasing it’s popularity for musical uses. This was the cornerstone for cassette tapes and cassette players. In the 1980s, listening to music on a cassette tape became even more popular thanks to the development of Sony’s walkman. The walkman was a lot more portable and only a bit bigger than the tape itself, making it extremely portable. As the transistor radio defined music in the 1960s, CD players in the 1990s, and MP3 players this decade, the walkman defined music in the 1980s. By the mid 1980s, the cassette tape virtually replaced Long-playing records. However, sales for LP records remained higher due to greater sales of singles. It only took a short amount of time though before the cassette tape achieved greater sales than records by the 1990s. Although cassette tapes are slowly being replaced by CD’s and digital audio files on the computer, the cassette tape still remains quite popular today due to it’s durability. The manufacturing of cassette tapes are falling every year and are continuing to decline. Cassette players are already out of production. It’s only a matter of time before cassette tapes will be considered collectables and antiques.

We at Montreal Home Movies are happy to take those old cassette tapes you have lying around and convert them to CD for you. By converting your cassette tapes to CD you can save your collecting forever. Most of us have an old album or two that we used to love, but can’t listen to anymore because we no longer have a cassette deck to play it on. Or sometimes it’s just a matter of convenience as we would simply like to be able to take our music along with us and play it on a mp3 player, on your computer or in the car. Our many years of experience transferring 8mm, Super8 and 16mm formats to DVD have given us the necessary equipment and expertise to convert your audio cassette tapes to CD and improve sound quality. When we convert your audio cassette tape to CD, we ensure that each track is properly labeled and organized digitally. Our conversion process makes us your number one option for audio cassette to CD transfers. To learn more about our conversion process, please visit our remastering section.

At Montreal Home Movies, we give you additional options for your audio cassette tape including conversion to digital formats such as mp3 and WAV. We can also upload your music directly to your hard drive. And we provide customizable CD labels and graphics. To see all our options for Audio Cassettes, please see our export section.