My Mom and My recently passed aunt are giving me their 8-track collection which consist of stuff like the Beatles and my aunts 8tracks back when she used to be Married to Dave Dalton of the Ventures "He was the drummer for a short time."

I got no interest in selling them as

1. I got an old sports car from that era but no 8track input on my 280ZX as the PO being a crack head sold it off for heroine.

2. Is there either a MP3 uploaded or a modernized playing system that I can hard wire into my CD/Radio player?

3. I like the bands, I can play Surf music how it should have been heard at car shows or just listen to some of my favorites.

4. I heard they are clearer then Cassets and CDs.

So any modern day players I can get for a descent price or should I just dig through junkyards and antique shops?

My mom has this really awesome old record player that plays 45's on it. I really want one. My mom said that she'll buy me one in October for my sixteenth birthday, but I have to find it. I have absolutely no idea how much they cost, it would be really awsome to find one for less than 0 because my family doesn't have a lot of money. Any style is fine, it just has to be able to play 45's.

Thanks in advance to anyone who answers!
Ps. I don't know what category this would fall under.

I'm a kid of '92, I'm not supposed to know this stuff.
It's my mom's old Magnavox AS305 (record player, cassette player, radio). I haven't used the cassette player in years, it was extremely dusty, but I was able to get my mom to clean it for me. Now my problem is this terrible squealing noise. I looked it up on the Internet and it said that I needed to demagnetize it. Hooray for me, I have a demagnetizer. Too bad I have no idea how it works.

It's pretty much this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Head_Demagnetizer.JPG/300px-Head_Demagnetizer.JPG

It has a battery in the back, a little red light on the front. I probably need a new battery, but I still don't know how to use this when I do get one.

Help?
Step by step, please.
Rush doesn't sound good when there's a high pitched noise all during Tom Sawyer. I figured out how to make the red light come on! I press the little thing at the bottom of the cassette looking thing. @.@
But what does the red light do? I'm guessing that there's something about pressing that button that makes it work.
I think I got it...
But it's still squeaking terribly. Any suggestions?

..."right place at the right time"
So, I remember listening to a 45 on my mom's record player growing up - I thought the song was titled "The Woman That Never Was" - but when I Google it, nothing comes back. It was a female lead vocalist (I think) and probably was a 70s song (since it was my mom's). I don't know the artist or the year which makes it difficult. The only additional thing I remember is there was a lyric something along the lines of "...the woman that never was, was there in the right place at the right time..." - but that's all I can remember. Help!

I'm gonna make this as short as possible because I know novels are annoying on here.

I have been suspicious of my husband for the past several weeks because he's grooming himself a lot, gone missing often for hours and won't take my calls or text messages, and has been very rude to me for small things. Also, he has come up with several reasons to not be intimate with me. We haven't done anything for over two months.

Yesterday, he wanted me to drive his mom to a town about 45 min from here so she could put flowers or his dad's grave. I knew something was up so I left my mp3 player recording and this is what I got, and I'm wondering what he's doing exactly. There were three conversations over two hours and here are the things I heard him say for sure:

he called a lady named Deb and asked her is she liked his ideas. He mentioned something about 00 being a lot of money, the health and mental wellbeing of 'these girls',
he also said something about head shots and three girls being too prissy and then he laughed.
He mentioned head shots again and then he must have went onto the patio cause I couldn't hear the rest of that call. A little later, I heard him calling massage parlor looking for availability and asked who's working and what kind of build they have. He seemed to know their names.
The last call he was very flirtatious and talked kinda low. I was able to hear him talking about a well-known massage parlor here in Tulsa called 'all about you' and how he liked their lobby, staircase and rooms at the top. He mentioned that he liked places that people have to be buzzed in cause it's safer. One lady he talked to said shed been attacked, per his comment to her.

Please tell me what he's doing?! I don't know what do to & ive been up all night trying to figure this out. Thank you!

So for christmas my mom is redcorating my room.and i want like a retro theme but im on a low budget i need links and i deas to get the retro theme inmy room such as i found an afordable record player on craigslist now i just need more retro things like furniture and acesories

thanx : ]

My parents had this old record player in the 80's, but it wasn't just a record player. It was this large piece of furniture. It was wood, and the was rectangular, and had 3 sections. The two end sections were speakers and the middle section would play records and 45's and so on. So, this huge piece of furniture had a fla surface on top like a table, but to access the record part, you could open the "lid" in the middle. Anyways, this thing was hideous, but at the time, it was like the "in" thing to have. As a 50th birthday surprise for my mom I am doing a vintage party and would love to find one of these. I kept trying to google but cannot find a picture of it...If I knew the name of the item that would really help. Thanks!!

The other day I bought a 1948 Admiral TV. The people in the store said it still works, so I got a surge protector, plugged the TV into that, and plugged the surge protector into my outlet. I had the knob on the TV on off. I hit the on button on the surge protector, and there was a flash from my TV and then the power in that outlet and my living room stopped working. I began sniffing the air for a burning smell, it took a few minutes till I smelled a faint smell, but then it went away. I sniffed the outlet, the plug, the surge protector, and TV, but none of that was the source of the smell. I unplugged it all and tested the surge protector elsewhere and it worked fine. I had to go in the basement and flip the power off and on and the power started working in the outlet and the living room again. This happened before when I plugged in my New Record Player (Not antique, It also has a tape player, cd player, and radio.) and a lamp and the power went out on the outlet and living room. My mom is too afraid for me to try to plug in the TV else where again unless I get proof that it is the outlet and not the TV's doing.
It turns out it was ripped where the cord came out of the TV and now there is a scorch mark on my wall, thank you everyone for your answers. The cord was just torn and had the wires showing and it was touching the back of my wall. I was basically ripped off when they said it still worked. Now I gotta figure out how to get a new cord thing.

Hi im from the Philippines. I have a little problem. My brother recently received an ipod touch 8gb last december 25, 2010 as a gift and it is the latest gen and it's worth PhilPesos 10,500 (US$ 240.00) here. I previously wanted to get an ipod nano 6th gen touch screen which is worth PhilPesos 7,000(US0.00) but when I saw my brother's ipod touch i thought twice about getting the nano because the nano lacks some features such as applications for games and music video support and video camera. I mean just Pesos 3,000 more and I can get the I touch. But the Ipod touch doesnt include an fm radio which I totally need because Im an outdoor person and I like doing outdoor activities such as biking and all I need is an ipod that can play music, radio and nothing more. But if I add Pesos 3,000 (US.00)more I can get an ipod touch which I think is really fun to play with because my brother has it and he doesn't get bored even if it's the only thing he can play with when he has to stay with my mom in her boring antique shop. I mean he can spend the whole day waiting in the boring shop without complaining of boredom or anything because the ipod touch entertains him just enough. But the apple ipod touch doesnt include an fm radio which is rather disappointing and it is too bulky for me and whenever I bike. So please Help! I think the latest Ipod nano is cute but many say it is just not worth it because of lack of features. I think the size of the nano is excellent for my use but I want something that will WOW the crowd whenever I commute or ride the train. SHOULD I WAIT FOR SEPTEMBER 2011 SO I CAN GET THE NEXT GENERATION NANO? US$ 160 is just not worth it for a nano which lacks features. I have to get an ipod before Summer of 2011 so that i have a music player to take with in our summer vacation trips etc. It has to be an APPLE! and BTW this is my first post here because this is REALLY URGENT! I think it's too late to get the nano and I could have gotten it earlier if it is recommendable. Thanks!
Im an outdoor person who loves activities such as biking, hiking, camping so an ipod touch with the clip thing would be helpful. But again, It is expensive for its price and i would get it if sells for US$ 100. US$ 160 is just too much for a nano which doesnt support applications and video camera and stuff. Ipod touch is worth the price for its features but it lacks an fm radio which is mainly what im looking for in an mp3 player because I constantly get bored with my own music so i end up listening to the radio for new songs. But the size and clip thing of the new nano are plus factors for me because I enjoy being outdoors and I need something light and compact. But US$ 68.00 more and I can get an ipod touch which is really worth it for its price but has no radio. I like the games of the ipod touch Help!

Please help me...I am way behind the curve on my tech knowledge. Now that VCRs are no longer the standard..How do I go about recording a television program to send to my mom in California.
Is there such a thing as DVD recorder? Please tell me what equipment I need to buy and approx what is the cost. I want to record a few programs from Direct TV connection that my mother can watch on a plane using her portable DVD player
Jeez I have no idea what you just said. By the way my pc can only be used for work purposes...So I can do a tv card. Isnt there another option? Something to buy for the television that records off my direct TV connection
Sorry I meant "can't" buy a tv card

i was gonna ask mah mom if i could bid on a vintage record player on ebay, but i was wondering if all records work on every record player. and will vinyl records from hot topic work on a vintage record player? and if said record player is beteen 5 and 10 dollars and they say it works, will it work? wil it be cheap or is this person just feeling generous? thanks. and hurry, bid ends soon.

also, how much are records from hot topic.

I am talking vinyl, not cd's. My coolest would be the origional beatles singles on 45 that my mom gave me, and this crazy Russian album.

Also I know a lot of us that collect records also so end up collecting record players, if you feel like answering how many record players do you own? I have 3, but only two that work well

While cleaning out the basement, I found my mom's old (45+ years) of records, including her beloved Patsy Cline records. She was heartbroken when she couldn't find them (they've been lost for years) and thought that they had been lost in the move (they moved into this house, which we still own today back in 1982), and was upset that they were gone.

She gave up looking for the records years ago, thinking that they were lost. We have an old record player (one of the really old ones with the horn thing at the top) down here, and I wanted to test them to see if they played before I told her (I didn't want to get her hopes up if they didn't work and have her be disappointed). Unfortunately the turntable no longer works. Where can I find one for a decent price? Do any stores sell new ones? If not, where would I be able to find an older one that still works, and how much should I expect to pay for it? I'm planning for this to be her birthday present--when she gets home from work I'm going to have the turntable out on the dining room table that she sees when she walks in, and have one of the records playing when she walks in the door. Then I'll give her the rest of them, wrapped. Where can I find a turntable? NOT online!

Hello, I would like to hear from some people as what their thoughts are on this. Everynight, and I do mean everynight, as I lay down to go to sleep at night, I hear music. When I get up to locate the source, I can find none. I have been having this go on for two months, this time. I have had it happen before around the time my mom passed away. I can hear music and singing, however I cannot make out any words whatsoever. Last night I gave myself a headache trying to concentrate on it. My partner who was in the bed next to me, could not hear a thing. It reminds me of an antique radio as far as sound quality goes. It almost sounds like I am listening to it through a tin can...it has a "tinny" sound. It is starting to drive me nuts as I get up every night trying to locate where the sound could be coming from, but as soon as I start searching, it's gone. Any thoughts on this?? Serious answers only please
I have thought about the brain issue however it's not that. And to Fireball....dont judge me and my lifestyle, you have no clue what I have been thru in my life. Apparently you cannot read well as I stated it starts as soon as I lay down...so unless I dream awake, its not that I'm dreaming. And which god would you have me repent to??? the one that died on the cross for ALL of US not just you. that response had nothing to do with my question so keep your comments to yourself.
Thanks for the serious answers. As far as the mental aspect goes, most schizophrenics dont question the voices they hear. They think it's normal..this was told to me by a doctor. And the fact that I thought I was crazy, pretty much means I'm not as I wouldnt be sane enough to question it. I appreciate the responses. I have looked into heating vents...mine are up high but nothing. I dont know if I mentioned this, but I have had this happen before in a different house around the time my mother passed away. I will continue to look into it.thanks again

Here are a few of mine:

Pretending to be a disc jockey with my Fisher Price record player and a bunch of 45's.

Roller skating in my basement with my hair in long braids.

Swinging on my tire swing and feeling the wind and swooping high and low, while my mom kept calling me in for dinner.

Saturday morning cartoons and a box of Lucky Charms.

I'm 27 and for the last 10 years or so I've been interested in purchasing a record player, I used to mess around with my Dad's growing up but that eventually broke over the years. I have alot of his and my mom's records from the 60's and 70's that I'd love to be able to listen to again, along with some of my own that I'm collecting.

I don't want to spend too much money, maybe 300.00 at the most. I don't have much experience in this audio field so I'm not even sure where to start, I know I had a turntable, a receiver and some speakers back then, not sure if that's still the same setup. Any help would be welcome. Thanks!

So I could not wait for the snow to melt, so I tried using my son's radio controlled helicopter in the living room. I soon realized that it was a mistake when I crashed into the mantle and took out Great Grandma Harriets' family heirloom, a German beer stein from like 1908.
Should I blame the oldest one who is never in trouble, but should really have a lesson in unjust parental discipline. ( he is quite overdue).
Or should I blame the youngest one again, who just recently finished "his" punishment for breaking the mother in laws picture hanging in the den. ( hey, who knew Nerf dart guns could pack so much power )
I mean he is used to it anyway. So I'm thinking of strategically placing one of his toy projectiles up on the mantle as evidence. This should leave no doubt about his guilt.
Of course when she is not around, all punishments will be excused, cause I will be good Dad vs. mean Mom.
And really it is her fault anyway. That guy from Antique Roadshow told her how much it was worth. It should never been out in the open.
So, who should it be??
deevious--- why can't I be both?

I left my ex fiance August of 2008 for reasons of abuse. His father has an old house that is used for storage, which is where my ex and I had a lot of our furniture and other things stored. When I left, I did not have a truck to get my things, and he said my things weren't going anywhere and I could go by and get them at any time. Over the next couple of months I'd gotten all of the clothes and everything I could fit into my car. I would call him to let him kno I'd be there to get the rest as soon as I could find a truck and trailer to use, and he replied by saying it was fine, that he wasn't worried about it. At the end of April, I moved back to mom's and was going to finally get my things (almost 9 months later). All of a sudden, mom gets a phone call from the people who live across the road from where my things are stored. The woman said that my ex was loading all of my things on a trailer and taking them somewhere. By the time I got down there (an hr away) he had dumped most of my things at his uncle's saw mill to bury them. There was nothing I could do. My dressers were torn apart and busted, big shelves that were hand built by my father who had passed away almost 5 years ago when I was 16, my grandmother's antique vanity was chopped up and glass from the mirror was strown all over the place. Everything destroyed. He came back there and told me that my charcoal grill was at his friends house in henderson, and that the 4 ft tall stereo/record player and speakers that my parents bought when i was a baby was in storage in the next town with all of the records that go with it. Me and my mother waited and waited, and he said he couldn't get in touch with the guy to get it and said he'd take it to my mom's. I haven't heard from him since that day. I've called constantly, left messages, and I still don't have that 00 piece of equipment which is more sentimental value than anything, or my grill. Is there anything I can do? Its now been over a year since I left him, and 5 months since he destroyed everything and gave those things away. Oh, and he also took my washer and dryer off for scrap metal. Is there anything I can do? I worry about this night and day, I have got to do something!

For Christmas, I bought my friend an awesome vintage 70's record player that lights up and says "Dancing Machine" on the front. I absolutely love it. I also bought her two brand new records by her favourite bands.

The thing is, this girl, Emma, is more of a "frien-emy", and a lot of other people in my group of friends say she really doesn't deserve such a good and big gift, especially since she's such a bad friend to me.

One of my other friends said she knows what my gift is from Emma, and that it "sucks" compared to what I got her. She told Emma how I got her an amazing and big present, and apparently Emma said, "Well, I don't care, I'm not getting her anything else, I'm not made of money."

This record player is amazing, and I'd love to keep it. I'll probably never find one like it again. Even my mom says Emma doesn't deserve it and I should keep it for myself, since I love music and have a ton of records.

So, do you think I should I keep the record player for myself and just give the two records to Emma, or give her the amazing record player as well?

The tape player in my mom's car has a feature that I've never seen in a home CD player/stereo: a next button. If you press the button, it skips ahead to the next song, just like on a CD.

How does it do this? It seems like it wouldn't work on an analog device like a tape player, particularly with a recorded-from-a-CD tape. Perhaps the coding for a break in the CD was recorded to the tape? If so, what would it do on a tape composed mainly of 20-second or so clips interspersed with bits of songs?

It isn't in mint condition, it's vintage. I got it when I was 4 1991. My mom has kept it put up for me, and I wasn't sure how much I might be able to get for it. I appreciate the help!! Thanks
I'm not cold-hearted, it's a legitimate question. I have respect for the person, it's just I've had it for 19 years, and it's a collectible that would make someone else happy to have.

Ok, so growning up when i was 3-7 my family always said how i was "wise beyond my years" and how i "knew things" or "knew" old song from the 70s with out even hearing them before. As i grew older i went to auditions for disney/nick i couldn't make it to the showcase because it cost 5,000 dollars. But the ady told me that from a scale to 1.0-4.0 i was a 3.9 on my singing...she said most ppl were a 2.5.
this was a boost of confedence. ALL my life i have lsitened to MJ, he is who inspired me to become a singer.
But...for some reason i am sooo atracted to everything from the 1970-1989. including shows,clothes,music
ive been wanting a RECORD PLAYER SOOOO BAD. but my mom says jokingly to me "you seriously should be like 44 years old right now...cus u shoulda been born back in the day" lol
but idk i am like OBSESSED with old things...idk why i had to be born so late.
i love vintage clothing and retro clothing!

Is There Something Bad about my obsession...like is this bad shouldn't i be into disney and pop magizines....and the latest trends?

NOT SURE WHERE TO CATEGORIZE THIS

Ok, so growning up when i was 3-7 my family always said how i was "wise beyond my years" and how i "knew things" or "knew" old song from the 70s with out even hearing them before. As i grew older i went to auditions for disney/nick i couldn't make it to the showcase because it cost 5,000 dollars. But the ady told me that from a scale to 1.0-4.0 i was a 3.9 on my singing...she said most ppl were a 2.5.
this was a boost of confedence. ALL my life i have lsitened to MJ, he is who inspired me to become a singer.
But...for some reason i am sooo atracted to everything from the 1970-1989. including shows,clothes,music
ive been wanting a RECORD PLAYER SOOOO BAD. but my mom says jokingly to me "you seriously should be like 44 years old right now...cus u shoulda been born back in the day" lol
but idk i am like OBSESSED with old things...idk why i had to be born so late.
i love vintage clothing and retro clothing!

I your "like Me" then Starr.

their is no one @ my school like me but i DO have a best friend that excepts me 4 me.

but im curious to know...if you guys could possibly be my personality twin.

BTW, NOT SURE WHERE TO CATEGORIZE THIS

my mom brought me home a smaller old record player that has a built in speaker!she got it from a guy who was moving..........but even when the volume is up all the way it dosent go very loud for some reason, and it dosent play the record properly, it skips through the song a bit sometimes! and are you able to hook larger speakers up to it?...........let me know if u know what that shit is all about.....?.........thanks!!!

I recently told my mother I wanted a record player. Obviously she told me no. I need an extreamly cheap record player, under cheap. I don't care if it's used as long as it still plays well. I want one with a speaker on it so i don't have to buy even more stuff for it, and would perfer it not to be huge. I've checked ebay recently, but will continue to check it. I don't trust Craigslist though. I need a secure site that is well known. If one such site exsists. Does anyone have any ideas on where to go or what site to visit? by the way, I kinda need to trick my mom into getting me one, so if it's a store in another city (i'm near Ann Arbor, Mi) there needs to be some good reason to go there. If you are in the area and have one and are planning to sell it, I may be able to convince my mom to go to the sale and get it for me. No garentee though.
please don't tell me to go on Ebay or Craigslist as I stated in my details that i've gone on there.
my mom won't crack on the ebay idea i need more!