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Oh man! The nostalgic feeling seeing these photos give me cannot be put into words, esp. for those who haven’t used tapes. There were stores in my country where
by Jun8 2y ago
Oh man! The nostalgic feeling seeing these photos give me cannot be put into words, esp. for those who haven’t used tapes. There were stores in my country where you would give a list of songs you wanted, select the quality of the cassette tape, and in 3-4 days would get the recordings, a primitive Spotify list. I also had a combination radio/cassette player deck on which, whenever a good song on the radio came up, I would record it, to have my own mix tapes.
Recently I found, to my amazement and delight, that a robust cassette hacking culture still exists to circuit bend walkmans and create loops, eg see this course: https://dogbotic.com/cassette-hacking https://dogbotic.com/cassette-hacking or the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386973.
Tangential, but I’ve also started to at 8-track tapes. You can pick these up really cheap at estate sales and players are cheap, too.
- gregmac 2y ago> I also had a combination radio/cassette player deck on which, whenever a good song on the radio came up, I would record it, to have my own mix tapes. Ha I did this too, starting from when I was pretty young. I had a dual-deck recorder, and would sometimes just record the radio for an hour or so, then later copy specific songs to a second tape. I remember getting so annoyed when the radio announcers would talk over the beginning/ending of a song I wanted. Eventually I started buying music on CDs but still made mix tapes for years after that, because (1) I initially didn't have a portable CD player, but I had a walkman, (2) even once I did, I still usually preferred listening to a mix vs a single album, and (3) I didn't get a CD burner until their price became reasonable.