dejablues wrote:
>
> My 12-year-old has been obsessed with the Beatles. After learning that my
> dad has all their music on LP (the records I grew up on), he begged us to
> find a way to play them. I dragged out my old dusty Technics turntable
> (state-of-the-art when new), borrowed two speakers and an amp, and a week
> later I still can't get them hooked up!
> This technology is obsolete for very good reasons!

I have an Ion cassette desk that came with a USB interface and MP3
conversion software to rip my cassettes onto disk. At Target and in the
Sky Mall catalog I have seen a similar device that is a recorder player.
I have also seen a combination record player and cassette deck with the
same USB interface and software.

The software is rather trivial. You turn the record on an off manually
so you have to be there as the cassette/record plays. There's no way to
enter the time to automatically stop. I wasn't ****ed at having to
listen to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone over again but it
sure took a long time.

We no longer have any vinyl albums at all. We still have plenty of
audio cassettes and VHS tapes.