By the way, I promised someone on here I would post my tape collection when I had most of it in one place again.
Here you go, you know who you are.
Here you go, you know who you are.
@Indigo I never owned a Cadette 
@icedquinn They haven't come into vogue the same way as vinyl has, but they have a certain appeal to them.
Half of mine are taped from records or the radio anyway.
Half of mine are taped from records or the radio anyway.
@Indigo @icedquinn I think the appeal of casette tapes was recording them over the radio.
@xianc78 @icedquinn That was certainly part of it, there's also just the general convenience of being able to pop the tape in and play it right away, no fiddling around with the setup required for vinyl.
Plus they kept better, there wasn't a risk of "playing them to death" on turntables with tracking forces too high, and they were more feasible to play in your car.
Nowadays it's mostly an A E S T H E T I C thing.
Plus they kept better, there wasn't a risk of "playing them to death" on turntables with tracking forces too high, and they were more feasible to play in your car.
Nowadays it's mostly an A E S T H E T I C thing.
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@Indigo @icedquinn My only experience with them was in cars because portable CD players and later MP3 players replaced them.
I'm more interested in cassettes as a storage medium. A lot of early home computers and even video game consoles used them. If you have one of those cassette adapters, it's possible to use a phone, laptop, or MP3 player to load software that way. I also heard that in Europe people would actually broadcast PC games over the radio where you could record the data on a cassette. I could imagine someone randomly tuning in only to hear the ear rape coming from the tape data.
