The Rise and Fall of Cassette Tapes

[@BPC1053]

Good Job! I grew with Cassettes in the 1980's. I still play them in 2024.

[@chrisb8362]

I used them in 70's and 80's and still do recording today on tape. pure joy!

[@Gili1973]

Still have them,still listening to them,and they are in very good quality and in very good shape!

[@Badassvidsz]

The same here !

[@TBNTX]

ditto.

[@jaldav]

I have and listen to high quality Maxwell tapes dubbed in 1981 when I had my first higher end Harmon Karden deck.

[@robertodwyer2979]

Recording off the radio was the best memory of the 80s

[@Slo-ryde]

Exactly, that was my biggest thrill with cassettes; it was a breeze, and free.

[@mirxtrail]

Press pause...then release

[@lesliemclean4381]

WBLS NEW YORK.

[@rkmklz7562]

I had 100s of tapes.... when I got my first computer back in the 1990s.....I recorded all my cassettes to CD ...I still have them 45 years later.... you can't beat mixes 😊

[@Mikexception]

In CC I admire constantly seeing without move of hand which side I play and more less location of played track by lookng on perportions on spules, and time of all CC. . It gives me feeling of orientation which CD does not provide for me because it shows only number of track

[@jhonwask]

I still use cassettes. I recorded my CD's onto cassettes to preserve them before scratches set in. In 1973, I received my first cassette recorder and by 1983 had well over 200 tapes and a few decks.

Cassettes are my childhood. Still recording and listening to them in 2024. :)

[@bloqk16]

One aspect I loved about audio cassettes in the 1980s was capturing music radio on tape, known as 'airchecking.' Here it is, some 40 years later, with well-preserved audio cassettes, being able to relive the sound of contemporary music radio (US) as it was in 1984. Many of the commercials in those airchecks were with retailers; products, and services that no longer exist. It makes those radio airchecks a _time capsule_ of the era.

[@JuanDaMajikOne]

Yes, I still have one or two cassettes around. All recorded off the radio. Nostalgia is great!

[@bennyandersen742]

@@bloqk16 I listened to a David Bowie track recently , fashion, which I recorded from radio in the early 80s , that was strange, almost eerie. A ghost from the past.

[@platinaatje6134]

Waiting with your finger on the record button for the DJ to shut up.

[@kensims4086]

I recently got 3 8tracks of early 70s n.y. radio stations, I need to get them repaired and transfered, anybody know the best to do it?

[@gowensbach2998]

I had a job back then on a production line, where we sat all day and assembled things. We were allowed to bring in headphones and anything you wanted to listen too while you worked. I brought my cassette deck radio recorder. I lived in town that had a student run radio station, and some other great stations. I created hundreds of tapes that way.

[@jasonadams371]

I still have plenty of Cassettes and even 8 tracks they all still get love and played weekly

[@DrNoahBoddy004]

I adore cassette technology. I also fully embraced Minidisc sound as well, and I continuously use both today for all my music listening.

[@jamesholm3107]

I had a Walkman. I just about wore it out. But I still have my cassette tapes.

[@fourspooks4518]

I have just perchased a 2001 Audi TT with a Cassette player and a 6 CD changer. I managed to buy tapes and yes the memories flooded back.

[@Transterra55]

I still have about 100 cassette tapes. I remember some of my best tapes were recorded from borrowed CDs to type lV metal tape with Dolby C….. to me They sounded even better than a CD because of the analog aspect of the cassette tape.

[@automatedelectronics6062]

Except, the cassette tape is making a comeback. Some new albums have been issued on cassette tapes. Component cassette decks are being made available by more manufacturers. Personal cassette players are also becoming increasingly available. Vintage cassette decks are very popular. Blank quality cassette tapes are available again.

[@2prtv]

Component tape decks can't no longer be manufactured because the finer technical parts within the decks are no longer being made, like the heads and other circuitry. I'd love to be wrong. I've got thousands of tapes, plus hundreds of new blanks that I'd love to make new mixtapes on, but buying a "NEW" working tape deck is not possible at this stage.

[@StuffJason437]

Newly manufactured tape decks are low quality and none have dolby noise reduction. Because, there is only 1 chinese manufacturer for tape deck mechanisms.

[@philipsharples615]

I remember my dad having a early cassette recorder in 1968 . It was a DANSETTE ,that was based on an AIWA JAPANESE MODEL. I still have some of the mix tapes I made for my friends. I still have a cassette deck as part of my HIFI system. The model I have is a AIWA ADWX909 from 1985 . It has an adjustable tape bias function enabling you to get the best sound quality from all tape brands.

[@steviebboy69]

I have an old AIWA turntable the one that had the draw that ejected out I think the model is D50. I looked up the model above that you mention and the AIWA Cassette deck looks pretty fancy and I bet quite expensive.

[@steveaspeck2732]

I still have a high quality cassette tape player from the mid 90's and some mixes I did back in those day along with a small collection of store bought cassettes.

[@howardgreenman2908]

Been collecting music since I was a teen in the 1960’s. Have 1300 vinyl LP’s, 400 cassettes and 500 CD’s. Continue to play and listen to them all with great satisfaction. I don’t consider any of the formats to be obsolete. Interesting and gratifying that young people are responsible for the revival of cassettes and vinyl in recent years.

[@highlife0586]

I remember getting an RCA cassette tape recorder for Christmas back in the 60's I was one happy teenager at the time.

[@postmodernrecycler]

I have my grandfather's old car (1989) with the original cassette radio. At some point as a teenager I got The Cure's "Wish" album stuck in there and it's the only thing that can play in the car, lol.

[@zetametallic]

I'm not a fan of the cure so I'd be pretty upset if that happened😂. On my I POD classic Jamiroquai's playlist was the only thing that would play but that wasn't so bad as I'm a fan

[@olafjentzsch6759]

Still have them. Love them . And still playing even the 8 track tapes. My opinion as long as you have a great stereo system receiver. You have no problem playing these tapes unless you’re really old and they’re worn out.

[@limitlesscollector1466]

Im 45.. I started collecting cassette tapes back in the day.

[@MagnusPaul1976]

I have quite a few cassette tapes. I would say about half are Type I and the other Type II. Then quite a few prerecorded ones and of course a few mixtapes. I have a few decks, portable cassette recorders and a Walkman. I playback on each on a regular basis. 😊

[@VintageOils]

cassettes are great and misunderstood.

[@Badassvidsz]

Indeed 😞

[@Terry.W]

Still got my Sony Cassette decks and sound great...and some bands still make and produce Cassettes.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

I am listening my old cassettes right now. Mostly stuff Recorded off of the radio. It's great to go back in time. The old disc jockeys, and station call letter changes through the years. And other stuff. I have over 100. You couldn't very easily record digitally off of the radio . And hit record on demand, and stop or pause during commercials. I loved CD's .(And Vinyl an 8-tracks) But I have personal tapes I made that I enjoy still

[@PaulKoshir]

I still have all of my cassette collection from years ago, and I still play them now. Most of them are mixed tapes of which I made at the time. This is great nostalgia! I replaced that CD/MP3 player in my car for a 3-way unit (radio, CD and cassette player) and boy, does it still sound great!

[@thomashoppe893]

Cassette Tape is on the rise lately. I never serviced so much Tapedecks in all my live, then i did during the last year.

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Posso considerarmi a mani basse il piu grande appassionato della cassetta esistente.mito e leggenda indiscusso a livello mondiale!

[@dorritfredrikaholm3320]

I have many cassette tapes and I still play them in 2024

[@TryonoTeknikJog]

the rise & fall ..and now rise again...

[@jazzcatjohn]

Wish I still had all my heavy metal tapes from the 80s.

[@bennyandersen742]

The best quality tapes were actually quite good, I used to record my vinyl records into them. They still work quite well.

[@VintageOils]

if you have a good deck even the lower quality tapes produced good recordings. it is just a matter of how your deck is calibrated as long as the tapes are according to the IEC standart. having a 3-head deck where you can on the fly adjust the calibration helps. with normal decks people had to stick to the brand and model of tape the deck has been calibrated to

[@Badassvidsz]

@@VintageOils Excactlly .

[@Stevanilla]

I threw in a Duran Duran tape that is probably 35 years old & it sounded just fine. I only have a tape deck again by accident. It came integrated in my record player. I'd buy them again but refuse to change formats again. Vinyl for home. Streams for on the go.

[@razorsharp8549]

We all shared our music on cassettes.

[@spikespa5208]

Saved wear and tear on the LPs. Sounded just fine and if there was problem with the cassette, record it again.

[@Mike990920]

I played in numerous bands, and cassettes were a cheap, easy way to give band members the music they needed to learn. And then the introduction of boom boxes made all of this super portable.

[@frankcoffey]

Music media (records and tapes) were expensive and to make matters worse they would wear out or fail in some way. CDs were fantastic because they were durable and would even survive a day in a hot car and the quality of the sound didn't change. I bought hundreds of them. CDs are now the worlds distributed archive of music. Even if the master tape is lost as in the Universal fire the music still exist all over the world as a backup.

[@davep.7737]

Low quality? Don't forget that a vinyl record is a cheap and fast copy of a magnetic tape.

[@B123DA]

I was born in 1989 and grew up with cassette tapes. I used to listen not only musics but also stories. I remember listening some fairy tales like Peter Pan or Cinderella from cassette tapes before sleep when I was a little kid. In 1998, there was an economic crisis in Southeast Asian region where I lived, the inflation made newer technology like CD Players became unaffordable for the majority of people, thus, prolonged the already established cassette tapes life here. My mom bought me a walkman with recording function back in 2000 as a birthday gift, and I still remember clipping it on my belt and listening to the music from my own mixtapes on the way to and from school. I remember when I was in my first year of high school back in 2004, students who owned a Discman would be considered rich, because at that time, Walkman is still the norm. I still have a bunch of cassette tapes now in 2024, most of them are the ones I bought in the early 90's, complete with the cases and covers. I played them with EZcap USB Cassette Capture, which can also function as a Walkman.

[@nestorsaunders8154]

I have an early 2000's boombox in perfect condition, and high quality cassette tapes dating all the way back to the late 70's, that still play even now!

[@bharadwaj25]

I grew up in the era of audio cassettes. Exchanging Mix tapes were a favorite pastime. I went away to USA for my studies in 2007 and by the time I came back all my tapes caught fungus and had to throw them all in one go 😔. I then transcended to audio cd's and own a huge collection till date, although I rarely listen to them, it has a nostalgic feel attached. I now carry all my songs in my iPhone 📱

[@Irish37]

Anyone ever lend a new cassette tape to a friend, only to get it back in an old, scratched, chipped casing because your friend decided to keep the new one? That's a friendship-ender right there.

[@capricorn839]

I still visit the thrift stores to buy cheap cassette tapes, including Vinyls. I still own a 1990s Nakamichi Dragon cassette tape player. A reliable player and it's still working

[@Jomo-x6n]

Back in 71/72 I bought a Sharp radio cassette player and it came with a demo tape. I remember holding the cassette in my hand marveling what a wonder invention it was and a far cry from the reel to reel tapes I was used to.

[@lamontalexander6807]

I still have over 500 cassette tapes. I still play to this day.

[@Stevanilla]

So many times I would wear out tapes and have to rebuy them. I spent hours making mix tapes for my friends. Making sure they were perfect and the songs flowed nicely. I kind of miss them. Yes, they would get tangled sometimes in the player, but by the time I was ten, I could take one apart and absolutely fix it. I spent so much time gently pulling the tangled tape out of the player. Making sure not to break the tape or blank out a section of the magnetic strip. But you could record on them from the radio, off of a record, or record your voice. CDs you could not do that with very easily. And some players by the mid 80s would flip sides for you or auto rewind. I am seeing artists selling them online again. It's cute but I be damed if I change to a physical format again. I have gone from vinyl to tapes, to CDs to Mp3s to streams and then back to vinyl again. Streams are the only way to go for me now. It's just such much better than anything else.

[@Frederick-in2rz]

I'm 70Yrs old. I remember when I got my first cassette deck, It was an Akai, didn't yet have Dolby on it. But I've still got it. Later when i got a deck with Dolby noise reduction I loved that. and eventually I wouldn't drive anywhere without a cassette in the player on the car

[@BrandonCrapo-d9e]

I miss buying blank cassette tapes, recording a mix tape and then coloring all over it. Good times

[@rawleramjag6948]

Yes, your perspective on personalizing music is very true for me. I still have most of the cassettes i had made from back in the 70s and 80s, and my Fisher HX Pro, and my Pioneer clock face. I hardly had any problems with them. For most of my recordings i had used TDK CrO2 and for archiving i used metal tapes. Good quality tapes, properly recorded and used on a good player (Nakamichi, Sony, Fisher, Marantz and others) were excellent media for any type of audio.

[@ajayb100]

I am still holding on my old tapes and having a good collection of never opened blank tapes and few high end tape decks

[@NAJEEB-i5o]

How things changed. In 60s & 70s I listened to vinyl records. In 80s I had cassettes. In 90s I listened music on CDs. In 2000s I listened to digital music on my computer and mobile phone. 😮

[@warrenfloyd-i9q]

the anxiety when recording the radio song and watching the reel getting scarily close to the end with the song still going. I started recording radio to VHS on a beautiful National nicam stereo VCR in 1992 and got 3 hours of quite full bodied true stereo recordings from doing that. Ended up with a library of about 30 cassettes complete with indexed titles and their counter locations in a school textbook. Kept you on your toes at a party though as you had to use a 2nd VCR to rewind the cassette after playing a song to get it back to zero, then fast forward it to the next song wanted using the index. Learned very quickly to record consecutive faves to avoid missing most of our parties back then. From a mobile DJ's perspective I can testify my god you haven't worked if you weren't around doing that in the 70's through 80's, dealing with vinyl and the sheer bulk and space needed to have on site plus the searching, cueing up and feed back issues, cassette tapes wit the hiss and track finding woes. My last few years of doing gigs was with a 2005 Compaq laptop holding a trailer load of songs, all searchable in 5 seconds and queued in 1 second and viewable onscreen with media player complete with crossfading,,,, Thank god for digital, yet I still love listening to vinyl for some reason.

[@mauritsvw]

Very thorough and balanced view on the history of cassettes. Thanks! Just one thing about sound quality: Near the end of the cassette era, high end cassette decks had extremely good sound quality, could rewind and fast forward very fast, and also had technology for getting to specific tracks quite easily and fast, minimizing some of the drawbacks always associated with tapes.

[@yell0wberry]

I was raised on cassette tapes. In the inner city, l folks , like DJ Clue and Ron G would walk in all the neighborhoods, selling their mix, tapes and increasing their reputation.

[@GarthVonMaraner]

I still made lots of mixtapes recorded from my growing CD library in the early 90's.

[@duprie37]

Every clip I've watched about cassettes goes all hyperbolic about "mixtapes" and how revolutionary and amazing they were. But it's a complete hallucination, imagined just because it sounds cool. I grew up in peak cassette and sure I made lots of "mixtapes" - for myself - but they were just compilations of songs off the radio I liked. Nobody ever even called them "mixtapes". You might make a tape for a friend if you shared really similar music tastes and wanted to expand your collection, but we weren't all furiously making mixtapes for each other like they were an artform, carefully selecting tracks and making artwork; or as if they profound statements of romance & identity lol. They were just tapes. Someone needs to bust this crazy mythology around the mixtape. The influence on indie music and DIY home studio recording, esp. thx to the Portastudio was much more profound. Suddenly everyone could record and put out an album.

[@BrianGeraghty77]

I remember when I was composing a piece of music and I was happy with it, I went then record onto tape.

[@ventues9751]

You made your play list's on cassette tapes, you recorded your favorite songs off the radio with cassette tapes. You recorded your garage band on cassette tapes !!!

[@davidchahal7682]

Good Memories !!

[@neilbradley5011]

I had a Yamaha twin stereo cassette deck, both decks were full auto reverse and could record. I used it to record a radio show 4 hours long , that was broadcast from 12am to 4am. Using 2x120 minute cassettes I would set it going and go to bed, playing it back at my leisure, until recordinig the next show. I now have a Sony Walkman DAP with a 1TB microSDcard. It has almost all of my music collection on. A late friend used to tease me in the early 80s about how in the future there would be computer chips that would store 1000s of albums. Guess he was right.

[@masudashizue777]

I used to be a translator (Japanese to English) so I used to use cassette recorder and cassette decks for my job. Because I was so hard on them, I went through at least 5 machines in 12 years.

[@jappedut9009]

I still play a cassette tape now and then ❤

[@ACBMemphis]

In my experience, tapes being "eaten" was a lot less common than you see pictured in nostalgic movies and videos. The intentional creation of a mix tape for purely aesthetic purposes has also been elevated quite a bit by nostalgia. You were more likely to "order the mix" for utilitarian reasons such as recording a song from the radio when you heard it or when you had access to a friend's album. But the custom mix became a lot more common and easier when CDs came around.

[@mauritsvw]

Agree about tapes being eaten. In decades of using cassettes, I can count the times it happened to me on one hand. Of course, looking after your cassette player and your tapes helps.

[@johnvan6803]

I love both cassettes and CD's. There are still a lot of uses for them! It's outrageous that they stopped putting CD players in cars!

[@tturner12341]

I have a Kenwood Dual Cassette deck that I bought fully refurbished and few years ago for $15.00 and I’m still using it as of today. I have so many cassettes I bought over the years that I still like to play. I’m still buying cassettes from current artists. They’ve made a comeback in a big way. Are they going to be as popular as Vinyl is today? Probably not. But, I still like to play them. Plus some of the mixtapes I made over the years still sound really good. Everything old is new again. 😊😊

[@MarkTurner-vs7uc]

Loved the tapes. Made my own . They were fragile. I have seen many players eat tapes. They got damaged easily and the high end goes away.

[@rpmcanada1971]

Digital artificial audio has never been as good as analog, and I have a large collection of vinyl. Cassettes will always have their use for me, to be able to copy my favorite vinyl tracks onto a cassette, to be able to listen to my 100% analog music anywhere without having to manipulate my vinyl, or to share with someone who doesn't have vinyl. As of today, the Walkman is the *only* 100% analog truly portable music listening device, and outperforms all those cheapo digital phones/pods/player. Thanks to Philips for having introduced the cassette, and to Sony to have invented the Walkman. They're still the best today, just behind vinyl and reel-to-reel...

[@modeljetjuggernaut4864]

Was listening to a 21 Pilots mix tape last night. It sounded beautiful..

[@billbarr7591]

Nice little video but you forgot to mention that the cassette was very popular in the 80s as a data storage format for domestic computers like the Commodore Vic 20, 64, 128, Sinclair Spectrum, BBC B and many others. Hundreds of millions of cassettes were made for these devices.

[@kimjohnson8471]

I ❤YOUR CHANNEL!

[@SuperheroJunior]

Cassette tapes are now making a come back. I saw them on sale online.

[@NTSCLTD]

❤THANKS ❤

[@AndyBHome]

1:53 the cassette tape was portable from the beginning. What made the Sony Walkman special was the high quality sound that came from the included lightweight headphones. Portable cassette recorders were the very first application of the Compact Cassette. The Walkman couldn't even record. Just like the iPod, the Walkman brought nothing new to the public but it was marketed really well.

[@rickyelvis3215]

TDK.. doe’s amazing things to my system!

[@winterautumncolours-tt8fw]

I remember that now 😂

[@sivaramakrishna3888]

Casette is nostalgia

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

caSSeTTe.

[@spikespa5208]

But a highly usable nostalgia.

[@bloqk16]

Analog audio cassettes were a relatively expensive format when compared to the 21st century digital age. How was that? In the 1980s a twin-pack of 90 minute blank cassettes would equate to an hour's wages (US). The two cassettes offering a maximum of three hours of record/playback time of music. Compare that to the modern era with digital: With a half-hour worker's wage (US), a USB flash drive can store hundreds of hours of record/playback time of music.

[@steviebboy69]

I think a lot of things were expensive when new, like I remember when blank CD's Kodak brand were around $5 each, and I remember around 1981 when blank 2 HR VHS tapes were like nearly $20 price being AUD.

[@mauritsvw]

Physical media cost money.

[@danijelmatanic3103]

I got about 80-90 cassetes, plenty recorded in 80's. I put some of those to my technics 3 head deck. ....and, of course, no intention to get rid of them. ☺

[@danielbwoye607]

I still have cassette tapes of ABBA, Boney M, Bob Marley, UB40, Lucky Dube and others all stuck in my shelf

[@joeaverage3444]

Tangled tapes were actually much more rare than memes suggest today. It just didn't normally happen, and if it did, then something was very wrong with your player. The far bigger problem was gradual tape wear, especially on budget or poorly serviced tape players, which could ruin sound quality after as few as ten playbacks.

[@nayirmada5124]

If the spindle hub for the take up reel is rotating too slow or not moving at all while the capstan is still spinning, the tape will tangle around the pinch roller. Yes, it's usually a mechanism problem. As for tape quality, I usually stick with the well known brands to avoid the drop out problem where parts of the magnetic layer comes undone from the base tape.

[@jeremyhodge6216]

I used to buy them every time I had money 😁👌💯

[@hwd7]

My earliest memories of cassettes were exploring my Dad's collection from the '70's, some really old ones that had different style jewel boxes, some were slim design, and made of a different type of plastic. Some were even cardboard that were hinged in one corner. And I loved the cassette carrier he stored them in. Then i started my own collection in the mid '80's, double mega mix cassettes, and even had a briefcase style cassette carrier to take to my friends place. So nostalgic, I sound like a Boomer🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@peterhogan9537]

when 1050 CHUM A.M. was going off the air I recorded hour;s of music and D.J,s even ad,s on Cassette because it was my favorite radio station.

[@kaohsiung99]

Our current car (in 2024) is a 2007 Toyota Avalon. It has a factory-installed cassette player and multi-disc CD player. For some reason, the FM radio only picks up 2-3 stations.

[@LAM_AUT_ECU]

Unfortunately, I have no tapes and haven't had any for years, decades probably. Yes, gifting personalized mixed tapes was something special, it wasn't like forwarding a playlist, it represented hours of work and was a token of apreciation and trust. You usually wouldn't gift a mixed tape to someone who didn't share your musical inclination.

[@djchewmacca]

I still have my pioneer cassette deck. Has dolby noise reduction which makes a huge difference in quality. Tbf, I haven't used cassettes or CDs for that matter for many years. I still have a massive collection of both including VHS tapes. Still have my VHS recorder too.

[@vancegosselin]

On ebay once a seller wanted $800 for two Sony Metal ES 46 minute tapes. I bought a new box that had 10 90 min tapes for $25.00 at a value village store. Same brand and tape type position 4.

[@2prtv]

With a good tape deck, and using premium ferrics and type IIs, you could get very good recordings. Despite having thousands of tapes, both blank and heaps of old mixtapes made off the radio during the 80s, the one thing that keeps me from going back into tape is a:) the lack of new tape decks being manufactured, and b:) the constant hassle of keeping heads clean. I was very perdantic about such. Using good tapes like maxell, TDK, Hitachi, Scotch/3M, and Sony however would keep your heads clean. BASF were the ones to avoid with a 40 foot pole.

[@1697djh]

Amazing how the LP record has outlived the Compact Cassette, 8 Track, Compact disc, and Mini disc. My Yamaha cassette deck was my last tape deck that disappeared in the early 2000's. Interesting how amplifiers still have a "tape" input on them?

[@mauritsvw]

LP's longevity is probably thanks to two factors: Firstly a good recording still gives you an extremely good sound, and mechanically a record player is actually a very simple design, where almost nothing can go wrong.

[@m80116]

There are still some aspects of cassettes that have not been replaced by digital: talking, interviews and reports are best suited to tape media, especially if you need to search through the speech. This is even better on straight reel to reel tape. What about recording radio programs? Radio still plays a considerable role in modern days and your best chance to record a radio program is by using a cassette deck. However what I believe makes the success of cassettes today is the challenge they propose both in the machine and the cassette media. One cassette can be completely trashed or turned into gold by the best of decks. Cassettes are like Formula racing, you need a competent machine, the machine needs to be perfectly calibrated and mechanically serviced, it needs to be tuned for the track it will run on, id est the tape media and then you need a very fine driver to deliver the performance, one that knows well the machine, the tape and the music is going to play. Only at that point one can deliver a brilliant performance on tape. Cassette today are engineering, technical knowledge and passion. Ad free of course.

[@riyadhrafique8377]

Still have some cassettes 50-60 tapes (or more). Some of them, mind you are over 40 years old, but they still play good. Some have busted (which has me upset seeing as how sometimes you know the music, but not the artist). Had some walkmans- that I wish I still had. 😦😩Such is life.

[@bernhardschicht4089]

still more than 160 Tapes here, self recorded from the 80ies and some bought ones, also own a Onkyo Tapedeck that still runs (TA2070), most of the Tapes still running, but i guess they lost of some Quality, but its still fun to hear the old Sessions, especially the live ones from Clubs with Micro passages of my own Voice and from Partner DJ´s

[@Phil-pq4ks]

The absolute finality that no one ever mentions is the main difference between the digital world of streaming, MP3, etc or anything that is cloud based you never ever truly own. Apple music?? If the app goes away your music goes away. Look what happened with Itunes. No maintenance is done anymore and if your account developed a problem on the platform ( like mine has) you're screwed. Never give up actual, physical formats. Albums, CD's, cassettes, dvd's, bluray, etc. YOU ACTUALLY OWN IT. No corporations can take it away or make it disappear.

[@tturner12341]

I’m going to make a Mixtape 📼 of Christmas music 🎼 today. I have a blank Maxell 50 minute metal tape that I’m going to use. I’m going to take the vinyl tracks and put them onto the cassette. Making a mixtape 📼 was how I listened to music in my car back in the day. And even now. I have a really nice Sony Walkman that I use in my car connected to the AUX jack.

[@talon1706]

I remember all my friends and I having a box full of cassettes.

[@iainmclaughlan1557]

I still have the original car cassette player in my 1999 Nissan Primera.

[@4catsnow]

Pioneer CTF-950...Maxell UD XLII or TDK SA....did pretty good...Made tapes for my auto sound....

[@AudioGuyBrian]

I still have tapes I recorded 40 or even 50 years ago that still sound perfect. I also have CDs I bought 20 to 30 years ago that are unplayable now because of pinholes (discrot) on them. So the Tape and Vinyl Record won the Physical Media wars. Not CDs.

[@nayirmada5124]

So far, I have 1 old CD which is totally unplayable & another CD which is only unplayable at the last 3 tracks. Visually, they look OK with no pin holes & no deep scratches. Could it be that the reflective layer has faded to the point that optical reader could not make out the changes in laser beam intensity? Anyway, it's fortunate that I had recorded the best tracks from those CDs to the mix tape cassettes which can still be played back today.

[@MovieMaster2008]

I still use tapes I have boxes full of them some going way back to elementary school reading groups, along those lines the microcassette, the only thing I'm hunting down are the complete tape housing and replacement reels.

[@emmanuelndcarterman9667]

Play and Rewind ...a journey into the past

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I used to play, playing it now again.For me music is just a cassette

[@titusrider7948]

Is this live or is this Memorex ? 😅

[@williamcalvert4106]

When are 8-tracks coming back?? Never.....I hope.