Peel tapes

[electrophotic]

It may be of interest to members of this group that I am disposing of 
all my reel-to-reel tapes (and tape deck).  Many of the tapes are of 
John Peel Shows, mostly Festive 50's - some complete shows, and some 
just the F50 part of the show.  All JP's narrative is included - I 
recorded these off-air at the time they were first broadcast.  I've 
listed them on eBay tonight (search for "John Peel" to find all the 
tapes with JP content).

Over the last few months I've copied most of the tapes' content onto 
CD (spent about 250 hours copying and manually indexing the tracks) 
and, along with other F50s I have recorded on VHS, the JP stuff fills 
about 90 CDs.  I hope to be able to make the CDs content available to 
anyone who wants copies but at the moment I'm basically analogue 
(plus a Philips audio CD recorder) and further copying using my 
present set-up would be time consuming and expensive, so I need to 
learn how to do MP3s.

The reason for me selling up is that the CDs take up less space and 
are more convenient.  The tapes are excellent quality (just a 
couple of them have a few minor glitches as mentioned on the auction 
page), and, unlike my CD transfers which I had to edit slightly to 
fit onto 74/80 minute CDs, the full shows are one continuous take.