> Cassette players, they’re not really manufactured anymore, and the prices are going up on used ones
Tascam just released a new deck cassette player, with USB:
https://ask.audio/articles/tascam-announces-202mkvii-dual-ca...
Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases
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#32My mind just can't accept that this isn't a parody / publicity stunt.
It's just hipsterism.
Just like cassette players, mechanical type-writers, old IBM keyboards, VHS revival, taking pictures on film, so on.
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#33http://werber.xyz/vaporwave/ made this a while back while trying to figure out vaporwave, still don't get it
Take a song by Phil Collins or Peter Gabriel and slow down the tempo and you have a glib interpretation of vaporwave.
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#34Making something that can fit on a floppy disc is pretty cool restriction to give yourself imo. Do you just cripple the bitrate to squeeze a 3+ minute song on, do you stick to super short songs or do you find alternate means of maximising the space (I'm thinking potentially a mixture of midi files with some guidelines, and super low encoded vocals) Floppy discs are much more aesthetically pleasing than cassettes (alt…
Here's a ~2-minute music video that fits on a floppy, about 1 megabyte. http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=74913 The post has some details about how it's done. There's a YouTube link, which is good since the main download link seems to be virus-infected.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet it's a sub with 100,000 followers: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/ There's a sub-genre that dubs Vaporwave songs with Simpsons clips that has tens of millions of views on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsonwave It is indeed very real. Surreal, even.
If you think that Simpsonwave is weird, just wait until you discover fashwave: https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/mgwk7b/fashwave-trumpwa... It's literally the same as vaporwave, but with fascist titles and graphics. Reminds me a lot of neo-Nazis appropriating metal and punk. Vaporwave is a weird genre. It's really popular on the internet, but it never quite hit mainstream, I don't see clubs playing it and most of…
New Orleans has a whole vaporwave centric Krewe (parade and party social club) led by one of the Arcade Fire frontmen. They threw a pretty awesome party modeled after the 1984 World’s Fair earlier this year.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the same thing when all these punk and indie groups were releasing cassettes. Then I found out that most people didn't play the cassettes. They bought them because they look good on a shelf. The cassettes have a download code printed inside (Bandcamp will spit out a CSV), so when you actually want to listen to the music, most will redeem the code (or just stream it). So it's still pretty silly, but not as s…
Punks, at least, most certainly do listen to cassettes. Cassettes are cheaper to run in small quantities than vinyl. Cassette players are cheap and easy to find. Punk music sounds good on cassette. I'm not so sure about floppy releases. But there is probably some overlap between retrocomputing enthusiasts and vaporwave fans. Maybe they're the target market. At least floppies are thin; a shelf full of cassettes will f…
Punks, at least, most certainly do listen to cassettes.
And my wife, as well. She's not a punk, but she buys cassettes and listens to them, too. I assume because it brings back memories.
Duran Duran, Beck, Prince, Police, etc...
Used ones from the record store she picks up for about $2. New releases run more, but I don't ask.
But she listens to them. We picked up a huge box of blank 90-minute NOS Maxell tapes at an antiques store recently, and she's busy recording her records to tape so she can listen to them via Bluetooth in her car (via battery powered BT dongle).
She picked up several brand new tape players and boom boxes in Japan recently to make sure she has something to play her cassettes on. Though I've seen some at Amoeba, too. But they're just way more expensive in L.A.
Never try to understand the logic of a hardcore music fan.
See also: Tube anything.
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#37Making something that can fit on a floppy disc is pretty cool restriction to give yourself imo. Do you just cripple the bitrate to squeeze a 3+ minute song on, do you stick to super short songs or do you find alternate means of maximising the space (I'm thinking potentially a mixture of midi files with some guidelines, and super low encoded vocals) Floppy discs are much more aesthetically pleasing than cassettes (alt…
Here's a ~2-minute music video that fits on a floppy, about 1 megabyte. http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=74913 The post has some details about how it's done. There's a YouTube link, which is good since the main download link seems to be virus-infected.
Probably it's just triggering your AV's heuristics by using an exe compressor.
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#38I'm impressed with the state of 32kbit AAC streams. You could fit almost 6 minutes of that onto a floppy, and the quality is much higher than an 8-bit MP3
How's Opus for this sort of thing?
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#39I'm still waiting for the wax cylinder to come back as the coolest media format.
See for yourself! I present to you, Metal Recorded on a Wax Cylinder:
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's a ~2-minute music video that fits on a floppy, about 1 megabyte. http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=74913 The post has some details about how it's done. There's a YouTube link, which is good since the main download link seems to be virus-infected.
Probably it's just triggering your AV's heuristics by using an exe compressor.
Yeah, that's a good guess. VT doesn't detect anything https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/cd39f57162b0bd78f0611118038... so I don't know why Google's Safe Browsing service flagged it.