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>Philips invented the cassette tape in 1962, first introducing it to music fans a year later. Thanks to its compactness, portability and sound quality, it quickly began to surpass the vinyl record in popularity. This seems suspect... According to this figure (going back to 1973 only) vinyl still far outpaced cassette sales until the mid-80s. http://blog.thecurrent.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/2014...
Why not instead focusing on reinventing the LP? One side disc, large format, laser pickup, analog recording. Bring together the good parts from both LP and CD / DVD.
Why not instead focusing on reinventing the LP? One side disc, large format, laser pickup, analog recording. Bring together the good parts from both LP and CD / DVD.
>Philips invented the cassette tape in 1962, first introducing it to music fans a year later. Thanks to its compactness, portability and sound quality, it quickly began to surpass the vinyl record in popularity. This seems suspect... According to this figure (going back to 1973 only) vinyl still far outpaced cassette sales until the mid-80s. http://blog.thecurrent.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/2014...
Man, these two charts side by side really show the total financial abuse/great move (depending on POV) that was the music CD and selling an entire album at once to people who only wanted a few songs. It was not the norm before nor after, just an outlier, but one that brought billions of dollars in. No wonder they fought so hard against downloading (both legal and illegal).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
hipsters and fan-signalling. Its a means of being "more" of a fan. Not to say I disapprove just looking for means of explanation.
But your language choice means that you do disapprove. Clearly. That's like the classic of saying "no offense" after you realise it was actually a obviously offensive thing to say. It doesn't change anything and is a semantically meaningless statement, and you still were offensive. I dislike how HN'ers attach meaningless disclaimers like these at the end of every sentence they make because they're so afraid of gettin…
I dislike how people project into comments they read. For example YOU have projected that I am not confident in the comments I make because of how I suffix them. That's distasteful and if you want to experience the wrath of my will then you're more than welcome to a personal meet up. So, case in point: If I don't add disclaimers at the end people read their own meanings into what I say and people get mad at me even though I never meant what they thought I meant.
Disclaimers are a product of the universal effect of the internet where the reader could be almost anyone in the world. If I'm talking to people I can see the facial expressions of I do not add these disclaimers.
Why not instead focusing on reinventing the LP? One side disc, large format, laser pickup, analog recording. Bring together the good parts from both LP and CD / DVD.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
hipsters and fan-signalling. Its a means of being "more" of a fan. Not to say I disapprove just looking for means of explanation.
Or nostalgia, or artwork, or the satisfying tactile feel of changing tracks with the needle, or...
I feel like this is what happens when you reach the enlightenment stage with technology. I have a phone with eight 64-bit CPU cores built with 10nm lithography, and I cook on cast iron. "New" or "old" doesn't matter. We have things that do things. Pick one.
(What does "enlightenment stage" mean?)
>Philips invented the cassette tape in 1962, first introducing it to music fans a year later. Thanks to its compactness, portability and sound quality, it quickly began to surpass the vinyl record in popularity. This seems suspect... According to this figure (going back to 1973 only) vinyl still far outpaced cassette sales until the mid-80s. http://blog.thecurrent.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/2014...
Man, these two charts side by side really show the total financial abuse/great move (depending on POV) that was the music CD and selling an entire album at once to people who only wanted a few songs. It was not the norm before nor after, just an outlier, but one that brought billions of dollars in. No wonder they fought so hard against downloading (both legal and illegal).
Curiously, during cassette tape dominance in the early 90s album length was 12.5 tracks. This increased to 15.8 in 2003, as CDs dominated. It has declined again to 14.2 tracks.
They state,
"With subscription pricing and the ability to easily skip among artists (as opposed to per-album or per-song charges, which were the norm), streaming pushes users to listen to explore new artists. This has the potential to reduce the concentration of the very top artists and albums, while also helping music lovers find what economists refer to as the “long tail” of the industry."
// totally unrelated complaint: searching Google for the above chart was super frustrating, giving almost exclusively "what sounds best" results when I was trying to find sales figures. Searching for the HBR article I linked above (which I had read previously but forgotten details of) was equally fruitless on Google "average album length" and variations kept returning "what's the best length for an album" results. Had to switch to DDG to find the HBR article, and with the same search term it was the third result. WTF google?! I keep noticing less helpful results.
>Philips invented the cassette tape in 1962, first introducing it to music fans a year later. Thanks to its compactness, portability and sound quality, it quickly began to surpass the vinyl record in popularity. This seems suspect... According to this figure (going back to 1973 only) vinyl still far outpaced cassette sales until the mid-80s. http://blog.thecurrent.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/2014...
Kids were taping songs from the radio and sharing "mix tapes" in the 1970s. Boom boxes had dual-well cassette decks for easy tape-to-tape dubbing. Cars quickly migrated from 8-track to cassette tapes. (Obviously, a fragile needle & groove playback mechanism isn't going to work a well in a moving vehicle: https://www.google.com/search?q=vinyl+record+player+in+car&s...)