How do you preserve cassette tapes?

Robert John Hadfield of Audiomover addresses common questions about legacy media.
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[@AK8901]

digitising the contents of a cassette tape is NOT preserving the cassette tape.

[@cowgf1504]

You can buy the stuff to digitize it yourself, then you always have a master copy which you can use to then re-record the audio when the tape itself starts to fall apart.

[@AK8901]

@@cowgf1504 Yea that's still not preserving the tape itself tho

[@cowgf1504]

@@AK8901 I mean you can't preserve the tape forever The plastic's going to eventually degrade the tape is going to like wear down and the ferric oxide will rub off You eventually need to transfer it to another tape

[@cowgf1504]

@@AK8901 there's just no way to keep it forever just like how a hard drive on a computer will only last x number of years

[@AK8901]

@@cowgf1504 True, but it'd be nice if x is a good number of years. say 70 years or so.

[@kellanharringtonpham]

I love your videos! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos!

[@audiomover]

Thank you for saying so. We have a lot more planned. :)

[@pepperonicapone1443]

This make me sad

[@audiomover]

It's super unfortunate I know. We are on the front lines of this in our studio. We receive tapes from across North America. Amazingly, most of the tapes we receive are still in pretty good shape. But having operated this business for twenty years now, we see the damage and deterioration increasing.