SUMMARY BY CHATGPT

In this episode, Tom reviews a cassette-to-MP3 conversion gadget, ideal for those with old cassette tapes they want to digitally preserve. He acknowledges that cassettes degrade over time due to moisture and aging, making this an essential tool for saving old speeches, music, training recordings, and audiobooks.
The device he recommends is the Klim cassette converter, available for about $30 on Amazon. It allows users to transfer cassette audio to MP3 files, either onto an SD card or directly to a computer. While it’s not for audiophiles seeking top-tier sound quality, it works well for basic preservation.
Tom also promotes his free automation e-book, his mentor program, and his internet marketing school. He teases the next episode (964), which will cover the use of sound effects in recordings.
Key Takeaways:
• Cassettes deteriorate over time, so it's wise to digitize them.
• The Klim cassette converter is a simple and affordable solution.
• The next episode will discuss sound effects in recordings.
?? Resources Mentioned:
• Free automation e-book: screwthecommute.com/automatefree
• Tom’s mentor program and school: IMTCVA.org

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Episode 963 – Cassette Gadget
[00:00:09] Welcome to Screw the Commute, the entrepreneurial podcast dedicated to getting you out of the car and into the money with your host, lifelong entrepreneur and multi-millionaire Tom Antion.

[00:00:24] Hey everybody! It's Tom here with episode 963. Screw the commute podcast. Today, I'm going to do a cassette gadget review. And you say cassette? What's a cassette? All right, well, those of you old enough to have a bunch of cassettes laying around from the old days, I'm going to tell you what to do with them and how to save them digitally. Really cheap. And you can save them all from going bad. And I hope you didn't miss episode 962. That was fish branding. Well, here's another weird one. Fish branding. Fish. What are you talking about? Well, you'll find out on an interesting and unique branding session I did on episode 962. And anytime you want to get to a back episode, you go to screwthecommute.com, slash, then the episode number. That was 962. This is 963. Make sure you pick up a copy of our automation e-book. It's. Free and check out my mentor program, the longest running, most unique, most successful ever in the field of internet and digital marketing. And I triple dog dare anybody to put their program up against mine because they'd be too embarrassed to do it. All right. Also, hey, what about my school? If you're in my mentor program, you get a scholarship to my school at IMTCVA.org.

[00:01:45] All right. Now, a lot of you have a bunch of cassettes laying around from the old days, and you don't even have a cassette player anymore. Or it's in the attic or in the basement, or it doesn't work, or it's garbage. So I discovered a gadget that's really cheap. I think it's about. It was about $30 or maybe a little less. That will take your cassette tapes and convert them to MP3. Now, if you're a super audio file and you want the highest super quality, this, that and the other, no, this isn't going to do it. But if you just want to preserve and save the stuff that you have on these old cassettes, this is a beautiful thing. Now, I looked through the ones on Amazon and the ones that had the best review. The one that I got was called a Klim. Klim was the brand name. And basically you put a cassette in it and you hit a button and it converts it to MP3, which puts it on an SD card. Or you can, I think you can take it off on a cable into your computer and digitize all your old cassettes. And the thing about cassettes is their tape and tapes are subject to moisture. If you just have them laying around in a in a place that's not air conditioned and just age alone will make them brittle and make dropouts and and eventually make them, I mean, even it can be as bad as the the whole roll of tape inside the cassette will stick to itself and break, and the whole thing is lost.

[00:03:21] All right. So this is something that's, I said, pretty cheap. You can and have it running in the background while you're doing something else. You know, so I rarely do gadget reviews, but this is something that's really, really handy for loads and loads of people that have cassettes laying around. I know I have them back to where I was doing speeches in the early 90s, you know, so that stuff has been in my library for years and, uh, you know, yeah, I guess it's air conditioning, but still, the age is going is going to get to those tapes. So I just put them in the little cassette thing, hit the button, boom, boom, boom. And now I've got it digitized. So I have them forever. And I mean and a lot of you have music you have I have old speeches, training recordings, teleclasses, you know, a lot of you speakers and authors and consultants and stuff. Audio books, things like that, that you might want to preserve. And and the thing came really beautifully packaged.

[00:04:27] I mean, I usually don't care too much about that if the if the product is garbage, but it had all the accessories that you needed with it and everything. So so it was a it was a great purchase that's going to preserve a lot of my stuff that I have all over this house in cassette form. All right. So that's all I'm going to talk about today. Like tomorrow I'm going to talk about using sound effects or not tomorrow, but the next episode, 964 is going to be about sound effects. Where do you find them? Make sure you don't get in trouble using them and how they jazz up your recording. So check it out. Yeah, that's 964 coming up in a couple of days. This is 963. And make sure you grab a copy of that automation book of mine, because I'll tell you what, the reason I have time to do 900 more than we're pushing 1000 episodes of this podcast is because I automate myself. I use simple and cheap and free tools to make things happen that would take hours and reduce them to minutes or seconds. So. So check that out. It's all in that automation book at screwthecommute.com/automatefree and I will catch you on the next episode. See you later.