I have a 1993 honda accord with a stock tape deck in it. I just picked up a jvc cd player, model KDG340 brand new. I was going to try and install it myself. I am no expert, but i have a basic understanding of electronics. They tried to get me to buy a wire kit for $20 and another kit to make it fit right for $20. I didn't buy them. Are these necessary to install?
Done...the hardest part was making sure i had all the right equipment, i had to make a couple trips...best to get the...

A: all you need to do is go to wal mart and buy a wire harness that matches the make of your car. Then you simply connect the wires of that harness to the harness that came with your new radio, plug it in and your all set. the harness should cost liek 7 bucks.

I have a JVC KD-VR320 cassette deck and I wish to record onto tape some input from my computer.
I do not know what buttons in which sequence I press in order to accomplish same.
I have tried various things but no joy.
Grateful for any help.

A: I suppose you've already tried pressing the "record" button and while holding it down pressing the "play" button. I am also assuming that you are not using a tape which has had the recording tab removed.

Hey people!!! I removed the stock Cd player because the cd player stopped working. I purchased the JVC KD-S14 cd player and the sound quality sucks. My stock radio pumped this crap sounds sick even when I adjust the sound it just gets worse. I'm pretty sure I installed it correctly because I've done it before no problems and everything works. Should I just get something different? I bought a JVC tape deck (YEARS AGO) and it was great this is why I went back to JVC. Any suggestions...

A: JVC was good, now it is cheap crap.
Sony is ok and inexpensive....$100 for a cd with ipod input at Wal-mart

This, dear readers, is all that remains of my tape collection: one USB stick.

Twenty years of collecting and nurturing an audio cassette collection have been reduced to nothing more than one 16GB USB flash drive's worth of bits. Just to put the scale of things into another perspective, take a look at this picture:

Yes, that's the same USB stick stuck slap-bang in the middle of the shelves, and that's only some 200 tapes visible in the front layer of the cabinet (not the original collection). More than this amount of music (data) and the shelf space it occupies have been condensed into what would fit onto that little stick there.

OK, enough with the dramatic exaggeration already: reality is a little different, and it's some these little facts, observations and anecdotes I will share with my non-existent readers here.

If you're not interested in reading about some guy and his stupid tape collection, then leave now. Go away.


A few weeks ago (21. April, to be precise) I completed the project which involved going through all 284 tapes in my private collection, ripping the bulk to MP3 and partially scanning in the artwork. The undertaking begun in April 2008 and took roughly 600 man-hours and brazillions of CPU cycles to complete.

One year later all that remains are...

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