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So if you have a large collection of cassette tapes covering everywhere from late 1960's to whenever it was that you bought a CD player.... What do you do? Like many people of my age I have a large box of tapes. Some bought and some where you, or usually a mate, has recorded or copied one for you. The latter was the way I got a lot of music. A work mate Nigel had a state of the art piece of kit that could copy tape to tape seemlessly and also rip CD's.  It even faded a track towards the end of the side of the tape and faded it back in as it reversed. Now that was magic. Of course it could record from vinyl as well. We had one of those mini getto blasters. They CD player gave up and whilst it played cassettes the sound wasn't that good. Whatever the problem was it was terminal. So it went to the dump. I had a look on Amazon. Where else? It's nearly Christmas. My birthday is on Wednesday too. Enter stage right. A kind of "Walkman" with the added abil...