# Is there a way to gift someone a jam tape these days? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 26, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581 "2021-08-26T20:37:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581/1 "2021-08-26T20:37:22Z")
Title kinda says it all. I’d like to make a mix tape (digital…not an actual cassette). Is there a way to do that and gift it to someone these days? I am NOT looking to steal music. I am asking if I can buy the music (legally) and send that collection of music to someone? Ideally something that will play on any platform. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581/2 "2021-08-26T20:51:06Z")
[Amazon](https://smile.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/b?ie=UTF8&node=163856011) will sell you music you can download to your personal collection as mp3 files. If you want to include a call-back to the mix tape of yore, put it on one of these: > **[Mixtape USB Cassette Tapes (128MB, 16GB) | Custom USB Tapes](https://milktape.com/)** > > We make USB cassette mixtapes. These cassette tapes are actually usb stick flash drives. Customizable, retro, you can gift them with music like an old mixtape! ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581/3 "2021-08-26T20:51:54Z")
If you’re both on Amazon Prime or Apple whatever their version of that is. you can share playlists. I think that’s the closest (legally), though it requires them already having prime or whatever, so it’s not a financial gift. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581/4 "2021-08-27T00:24:34Z")
_So_ many questions. Well, actually, two questions: 1.) Why are they called “Milktape”? 2.) Where does one come up with 128 **mega** byte flash chips in 2021? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581/5 "2021-08-27T00:28:45Z")
I see that they have 128 MB for $17.99 and 16,000 MB for $21.99. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581/6 "2021-08-28T18:47:57Z")
> [@Kyrie\_Eleison](#): > > [Amazon](https://smile.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/b?ie=UTF8&node=163856011) will sell you music you can download to your personal collection as mp3 files. > > If you want to include a call-back to the mix tape of yore, put it on one of these: Yeah, but that’s on a cassette - the OP specifically didn’t want to gift it on a cassette. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581/7 "2021-08-28T19:33:32Z")
Unless there is some reason it has to look like a tape cassette, like if he were using an actual cassette, I would walk into the closest store where they sell USB drives and ask for the cheapest (smallest) one, which will surely be several gigabytes at least, but who knows what they have left behind the counter? As for the music, to have it “play on any platform” I guess mp3 is still standard and popular; alternatives are FLAC and AAC. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-gift-someone-a-jam-tape-these-days/949581/8 "2021-08-28T20:50:22Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Unless there is some reason it has to look like a tape cassette, like if he were using an actual cassette, That made me think that somebody should have made a fully self-contained MP3 player that functioned like those plug-in cassette adapters there used to be for CD players. And it looks like someone tried–I don’t know if it was ever actually sold, though. > **[This Cassette-Shaped MP3 Player Is Actually A Cassette Tape | Telekom...](https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/cassette-shaped-mp3-player-actually-cassette-tape/)** > > The Mixxtape ought to scratch that nostalgia itch.