Morning all,

Ive been thinking about changing the Symphony head unit and CD Changer in the Octy for some time now, and was initially just going to get a new cassette head unit and changer, however, with all this new-fangled MP3 stuff would I be better just to get a reasonable MP3 HU and spend the next 6 months burning all my cassettes into MP3's ?

A semi decent Multichanger and Cassette player can be had for around

Hello, I've had my mp3 headunit in for a few weeks now and having 60 albums in the car is fantastic and all this on just 5 cds

The only problem i see with your tape idea is that you'll only get tape quality playback no matter how high you encode them to mp3, plus it will take you ages to do them - with a cd you pop it into the pc and itunes (or similar) will rip the cd, connect to the net and get all the track names, which show on the mp3 headunit, this takes about 5mins. With a tape you would have to sit and play each one to record it, you'd still be doing them in a years time!!

I bought an LG hifi from Hiwayhifi and it was faulty (not shops fault) and they paid for the return postage and refunded me no problem so i can reccomend them if you where to buy from them.

All my CD's are already in MP3 format on my PC but unfortunately 85 % of my music collection is on cassette or vinyl only (I'm old ) I guess I should burn them on to CD if only to preserve them from further deterioration, although it could take a while.

Now all I need to do is work out how to connect my HiFi separates to my PC.

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and buy a bigger hard drive