Mixing It Up With Mix Tapes
Tori Hennick Arts and Culture Editor Mix tapes are easy and fun to make if you just take the time. Photo credit Tori Hennick. When people have so many options for listening to music such as Spotify, Pandora and iTunes, not many people realize that it’s still cool to make mix tapes. Mix tapes became popular in the 1980’s, all that was required to make one was previously recorded music such as an LP. Eight tracks were the most common type of music recording during that time because cassettes were intended for vocal recordings only. Making a mix tape yourself is actually pretty easy. All you have to do is figure out what songs you would like to put on your CD, get onto YouTube, download the songs onto your computer and then use a converter such as media.io to convert your songs from an MP3 file to a wma file. Once you have converted those to the right format, you can ...