Anyone have recommendations for a cassette player?
Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
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#12Pretty clear-cut example of the Submarine[0] genre.
[0] https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html For those who aren't up-to-date with their HackerNews lore.
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#13I lived through vinyl, 8-track, cassettes, and CDs. I digitized all of my music over 20 years ago and no longer even own a physical media playback device. I can't fathom going back. Digital or bust.
I would especially not go back to tape. sssssssssssssssssssssss
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#14So are 80s phones! Lol
(I hated both)
https://tincan.kids/?srsltid=AfmBOopPdHpavGKB5WUVhZZDk34dKul...
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#15whatever is old is new again. it's a story as old as time.
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#16I started getting cassette players working again when I had kids - I had lots of old cassettes with stories still, and after looking into a lot of stuff determined that it is one of the best physical storage formats for that kind of content for kids we currently have. Its major advantage is that it automatically saves state, and the state saving is player-independent. Add to that that players typically have large clu…
Basically the same story here for me. I have a trove of audiobooks I've carted around with me from house to house since I left home which my kids now eagerly pick from each night to listen to at bedtime. I've even supplemented my collection considerably since from eBay and the like. It's just such a great medium. Fairly resilient, incredibly easy to use, compact, cheap ish. And of course there's the heady dose of nos…
>compact
since "compact cassette" is the actual trademark®, I can't help but think you might've been unduly influenced here.
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#17Cassettes lack the one thing LP records do better than digital formats: a large surface to display album art and roll a doobie.
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#18Been following people who have been making electronic music mixes between two cassette decks and a mixer which are worth a listen. The thing that's interesting is that you can pitch up and down in ways that sound nice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzsa1M7s1sk
Anyways, here's the mixes:
Trippy Ambient Cassette-Only Mix by Bop | Rewind Ritual 01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feHvyc69xe4
Cassette-Only Drum & Bass Set by BOP | Live at SK1 Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHmBcBPV-3U
DnB mix with cassette tapes (DJ Ponkachonka)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jp5TcherI
Cassette mix drum & bass (2005 - 2010) (DJ Ponkachonka)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpqui0lo-v4
What's crazy is that at least the portable cassette decks aren't cheap anymore. Look on eBay at prices and be amazed
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#19I lived through vinyl, 8-track, cassettes, and CDs. I digitized all of my music over 20 years ago and no longer even own a physical media playback device. I can't fathom going back. Digital or bust.
I would especially not go back to tape. sssssssssssssssssssssss
8-track is lower than cassette in my book, but they share a common factor!
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#20I find it depressing that there seem to be only two ways to distribute media and manage one's audio collection: Either ultra-convenient but fully locked down streaming services - or analog "vintage" media like vinyl or cassettes, which do give you a physical medium under your full control, but also require you to forego all the progress we made with digital media.
The one thing that's absent: Plain old audio files that you can store on your hard drive and copy to your phone or other devices.
Edit: Ok, there are still more options left than I thought. I take that back then :)