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How many cassettes do you own? When was the last time you gave someone a cassette? I bet it's been over a decade, because cassettes suck. The backups are made i

How many cassettes do you own? When was the last time you gave someone a cassette? I bet it's been over a decade, because cassettes suck. The backups are made in linear time, you can only share them with someone who is physically next to you, it's a giant pain to edit cassettes at a specific point in time, mashups are impossible because you have to have very expensive analog equipment to beat match, and pitch shift is then a problem. If you want to listen to a custom playlist you have to have thought of that well in advance, and you can only have as many as you have room for bulky cassettes. There's a reason nobody has a cassette deck anymore. It's not some conspiracy, and it's not because the kids don't understand. It's because they aren't very good.

reaperducer 7y ago
How many cassettes do you own? None. But my wife has over 200; many of them new releases in the last two years. When was the last time you gave someone a cassette? Last week when I recorded one of the albums my wife bought on iTunes onto a blank tape so she could listen to it on her tape player in the backyard. The backups are made in linear time So what? It's not like you have to sit there and turn the spindles. You push a button and walk away for an hour or a day or whatever and when you come back it's done. Also, many tape decks duplicate at double speed. you can only share them with someone who is physically next to you Again, so what? What's so horrible about sharing with actual friends instead of pretend internet friends? it's a giant pain to edit cassettes at a specific point in time, mashups are impossible because you have to have very expensive analog equipment to beat match, and pitch shift is then a problem Using the incorrect tool for a specific job doesn't mean the tool sucks. A cassette isn't a 24-track studio recorder. It's music for the masses. you can only have as many as you have room for bulky cassettes. Being able to touch something is a feature, not a bug. Nobody ever lost their entire cassette music collection because of a hard drive crash or a virus or a bad SSD chip or a power surge. There's a reason nobody has a cassette deck anymore. And by "nobody," you mean you. If nobody wants tape decks, then why are new ones still being manufactured? The director or IT for the multi-billion dollar company for which I work has a tape deck and a CD/MP3 player in her car. She uses tapes because they can take the abuse of an automotive environment better than digital media. And if the tape starts to wear, she just records a new copy. It's because they aren't very good. They are very good for the purpose for which they were created. Just because that purpose does not fit into your mindset does not make them universally bad. It makes you small minded.
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doctorpangloss 7y ago
> It's not some conspiracy... It's because they aren't very good. Sometimes marketing is a conspiracy. To sell you something crappy.
interfixus 7y ago
> mashups are impossible > If you want to listen to a custom playlist you have to have thought of that well in advance > you can only have as many as you have room for bulky cassettes More and more - as we are incessantly buried in overabundance, indifference, and loss of focus - I realise these were features, not bugs.
PavlovsCat 7y ago
> When was the last time you gave someone a cassette? When was the last time you gave someone non-technical a song that's only on a streaming service? Yeah, you can send a link, and it can disappear any time, forever. Might be blocked in their country, and so on. Meanwile, I still have cassettes of me and friends just derping around, ages ago. If I give you music that way, at least you actually have it. It decays, sure, but no worse than it does for people who don't know what a file is, who are at the whim of platforms.
- Godel_unicode 7y ago
  YouTube.

reaperducer 7y ago

How many cassettes do you own? None. But my wife has over 200; many of them new releases in the last two years. When was the last time you gave someone a cassette? Last week when I recorded one of the albums my wife bought on iTunes onto a blank tape so she could listen to it on her tape player in the backyard. The backups are made in linear time So what? It's not like you have to sit there and turn the spindles. You push a button and walk away for an hour or a day or whatever and when you come back it's done. Also, many tape decks duplicate at double speed. you can only share them with someone who is physically next to you Again, so what? What's so horrible about sharing with actual friends instead of pretend internet friends? it's a giant pain to edit cassettes at a specific point in time, mashups are impossible because you have to have very expensive analog equipment to beat match, and pitch shift is then a problem Using the incorrect tool for a specific job doesn't mean the tool sucks. A cassette isn't a 24-track studio recorder. It's music for the masses. you can only have as many as you have room for bulky cassettes. Being able to touch something is a feature, not a bug. Nobody ever lost their entire cassette music collection because of a hard drive crash or a virus or a bad SSD chip or a power surge. There's a reason nobody has a cassette deck anymore. And by "nobody," you mean you. If nobody wants tape decks, then why are new ones still being manufactured? The director or IT for the multi-billion dollar company for which I work has a tape deck and a CD/MP3 player in her car. She uses tapes because they can take the abuse of an automotive environment better than digital media. And if the tape starts to wear, she just records a new copy. It's because they aren't very good. They are very good for the purpose for which they were created. Just because that purpose does not fit into your mindset does not make them universally bad. It makes you small minded.

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doctorpangloss 7y ago

> It's not some conspiracy... It's because they aren't very good. Sometimes marketing is a conspiracy. To sell you something crappy.

interfixus 7y ago

> mashups are impossible > If you want to listen to a custom playlist you have to have thought of that well in advance > you can only have as many as you have room for bulky cassettes More and more - as we are incessantly buried in overabundance, indifference, and loss of focus - I realise these were features, not bugs.

PavlovsCat 7y ago

> When was the last time you gave someone a cassette? When was the last time you gave someone non-technical a song that's only on a streaming service? Yeah, you can send a link, and it can disappear any time, forever. Might be blocked in their country, and so on. Meanwile, I still have cassettes of me and friends just derping around, ages ago. If I give you music that way, at least you actually have it. It decays, sure, but no worse than it does for people who don't know what a file is, who are at the whim of platforms.

Godel_unicode 7y ago
YouTube.