Audio to Digital Transfer
Archival Grade Service with a Personal Touch
100,000+
130+
locations
90,000+
converted per year
115+
employees
5 million
scanned per year
Our audio to digital technicians transfer over 10,000 hours of audio tapes, vinyl records and reel-to-reel cassettes every year. We are not a one-size-fits-all (or fits in a box) service. Our unique process and technology allows us to keep it simple and affordable for basic projects, or customized and nuanced for clients with complex or technical requirements. Whether you have 10 audio cassettes or 10,000, our family-run business will treat your project like our own.
Our Mission
“By making the hard work of digitizing and sharing easy for our clients, we will preserve our world’s history before old formats fade and family stories are lost to time. Our ultimate goal is to make your best memories EverPresent in your life.”
– Eric, Jennifer & Winston
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HOME PICKUPS
Too many boxes to move on your own? Complimentary home and office pickups are offered along the East Coast from Maine to Florida.
LOCAL STORES
130+ locations available for convenient drop-off. See which store is closest to you. Our drivers personally transport projects to our local lab for digitizing.
FREE SHIPPING
We accept mail-in orders from across the U.S. We’ll email a pre-paid UPS label or apply a shipping credit if you ship on your own.
Why Use our Audio Digitizing Service
TRUST
Over 100 million memories preserved, 30+ years experience, 115+ expert technicians. Alarmed, camera-monitored, US-based, high-tech labs. Human quality control process. Advanced barcode tracking to keep you updated by email and text.
VALUE
The size of our company allows us to provide more for less. We’ve invested in the best audio technology so you can benefit from 24-bit .wav archival files, a hybrid of AI enhancements and human quality checks and advanced sound editing.
SECURE
You should NOT have to risk your family memories getting lost or damaged in the mail. We run a private logistics network between our clients homes, our 130+ local stores and our high tech labs nationwide. Your audio items will be binned and barcoded, and we’ll provide you with updates throughout.
RESPECT
No upfront payments and no rushed decisions. We never ask you to do work to make our job easier. Feel free to send your collections in their original envelopes, albums or boxes. We’ll count them for you, provide a no-obligation estimate, and keep everything in order.
Recovering Aging Audio with Optional AI Upgrades
Audio recordings degrade over time, often becoming uneven, noisy, or difficult to listen to. Outside of highly specialized audio restoration studios, EverPresent is the only consumer digitizing service to offer true audio engineering, cleanup, or enhancement options. Most digitizing companies simply convert and export the files exactly as-is.
At EverPresent, every audio project includes professional capture and baseline sound optimization and we also offer advanced restoration services typically unavailable from traditional digitizing companies.
Our AI-assisted process restores balance and clarity while preserving the original recording. Our AI enhancement tools can:
We Handle More Audio Conversion than anyone
EverPresent supports one of the widest ranges of consumer and archival audio formats accepted by any digitizing company in the United States. While many photo and video conversion companies do not handle audio at all, our team digitizes everything using professional playback equipment designed for fragile and obsolete media.
Advanced services we offer include track splitting, custom labeling, equalizing, de-hiss, decrackle and more. Output is available in .mp3 or .wav to CD, USB or private digital downloads.
Audio Conversion Pricing
All bulk discounts are applied automatically!
Cassettes & Vinyl
First 10 items: $26.99 each
$16.99 for 11+ transfersReel-to-Reel Audio
Starting at $45.99 for 3″ reels
Save 10% on 10+ reelsINCLUDED:
A $50 service fee applies to all orders. This service fee provides for safe handling procedures including: intake, item coding, physical & digital storage, quality checks by senior technicians and packaging.
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Comparing The Five Largest Digitizing Services
An honest comparison to help you choose the best company for your project.
Digitizing Audio
Our team believes audio transfer is the most challenging format due to the rapid aging of the source media and inconsistent original microphone quality. Even our standard level of service involves both human and AI-enabled optimizations to ensure a high-integrity listening experience.
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Shipping & Drop-off Experience
All transport between our stores, your homes and our high-tech labs is handled by our private in-house logistics network that’s 100% devoted to safely transporting your precious photos and videos.
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Shopping & Service Experience
We are the only major national company that makes it 100% free to get us your project, counts everything for you, build an inventory, and provides a free estimate and personal consultation before you pay a dime.
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Personalized Ordering Experience |
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*Information regarding competitors is based on public research and market knowledge available at the time of publication. Product features, and service offerings are subject to change. EverPresent does not guarantee the absolute accuracy of competitor data. Please verify all information directly with the respective service provider.
AUDIO TO DIGITAL FAQS
The equipment we use to digitize is determined by the type of media we are digitizing. In terms of sound quality, all audio media is digitized at a sample rate of 44.1kHz. We provide all digitized audio files in MP3 file format. We can also provide digitized files in an uncompressed WAV file format for an additional fee.
Because analog audio formats tend to deteriorate and lose quality over time, it’s common to listen back to an old recording and feel dismayed by unintelligible voices or unbearable recording noises. However, dust and other fine particles can also hinder the digitizing process by compromising your recording’s audio quality or by damaging the equipment used to capture audio. A dirty audio reel may cause voices to sound muffled, an audio cassette with a missing pressure pad can sound warbly, or a record with dust in its grooves will sound especially crackly.
For these reasons, we begin our digitizing process by performing a basic inspection and cleaning of most media types to improve capture quality. The first step is to examine the media to assess if there’s any damage that would prevent cleaning; some older media is so damaged that the very process of cleaning will damage it to the point where playback is no longer possible. If we determine that the media is safe to clean, we employ a variety of media-specific cleaning methods to aid in removal of mold, dust, and any other junk that may have found its way onto your recording. While it’s rarely possible to restore your media to its original, pristine condition, the inevitable improvement in quality always makes this a worthwhile endeavor.
Projects can be dropped off at any of our 100+ locations across the East Coast. As analog media is fairly safe to ship, we also accept mail orders and have worked with clients across all 50 states. All media should be kept and shipped in its original case or packaging as available. Ideally you should tie or rubber band stacks of media together to minimize unnecessary shaking and movement within the packaging. Bubble wrap or packaging material can be helpful as well. For flat media such as vinyl records and audio reels, a sturdy sheet of cardboard or similar addition to the packaging will help fortify your media for shipping.
Most audio media is charged by the item and not by the length of audio recording. Blank and unopened audio material are charged at a discounted rate. As audio media is charged by the item and not the length of the recording, the audio media is typically digitized in its entirety. If there’s a particular section of audio you’d like digitized, we can edit your file if you’re able to provide us with an accurate timestamp of the section you would like isolated.
We provide basic sound quality enhancement of all digitized audio files. Digitized audio recordings can be further polished and edited with our specialized audio software for additional fees. This can significantly improve the playback quality of aging or damaged audio media on a case by case basis. Additionally, if we’ve found any of your recordings may benefit from extra enhancement, one of our technicians will reach out to your consultant with editing options for you to review.
We offer in-house repair services and can work with most damaged media depending on severity of damage.
We do not offer analog to analog transfer or duplication services at this time.
Storing your cassette tapes and audio media in an appropriate environment is the best way to ensure the longevity of your collection. Cassette tapes and other audio media are best stored in a cool, dry environment free of dust and moisture. It’s always best to keep media away from prolonged contact with direct sun and fluorescent light. Avoid subjecting your media to frequent or rapid fluctuations in temperature. Keep in mind that regardless of storage conditions, excessive playback will still lead to gradual deterioration of your media.
One of the best parts of having your audio media digitized is the immense amount of physical space you save. A 16 gigabyte USB drive – quite a small size by today’s standards – can store close to 120 hours of music in the high fidelity CD-quality format we provide. That’s about 80 cassette tapes worth of music!
If you choose to receive your files digitally, we neatly organize your audio files either alphabetically by title or chronologically by year at request. Each recording is further organized by side, meaning if your cassette, record, or tape has two or more sides with audio recordings as is typical, you’ll receive two or more separate files corresponding to that particular piece of media. We can also further label, and even add metadata to your audio recordings for additional fees. If your audio recording is music with easy to identify breaks between songs, track-splitting is included in the cost of digitizing.
We pride ourselves on our ability to pay special attention to media types that many of our competitors can’t be bothered to look twice at. Our audio technicians are enthusiastic about the history and development of audio recording and constantly utilize their knowledge to make sure our entire process is thorough and up to date.
In the early days of audio recording, not all manufacturers would adhere to the same standards. While all audio cassettes store their audio recordings on magnetic tape, that magnetic tape can be made in several different ways. Phonograph records are even trickier: did you know the term “vinyl” is often a misnomer as most records before the 1960s were made using materials much different than vinyl and are often not meant to be played with your average modern equipment? Due to these factors, we utilize an array of high-end cassette players, reel to reel decks, turntables with special cartridges, and more to suit each recording’s particular needs.
During capture, all audio recordings are routed through a high quality analog to digital audio interface where the information is then saved to our computers in a lossless format in real time for further processing. Once the files are digitized, we can apply enhancements using advanced digital tools to reduce issues like background noise or hiss inherent to most analog media.
