If you’re a child of the 80s and 90s, you know some of the best music in the world was put out on cassette. Sadly, as times have changed, not everything that was on tape is available digitally.

There are lots of ways to get audio from tape to a file, but this might be the most clever. The new Cassette To iPod Converter is a AA battery-powered, 8 ounce device that is part tape player part iPod/iPhone dock. Cassettes can be encoded directly to the iOS device, or to a Mac or PC with free, built-in software.

Excuse me while I go get my Beastie Boy tapes out of my parents’ garage.

via TUAW