It's National Cassette Month!:)

[Ghettoboom767]

Hi everyone,it's National Cassette Month! September is the month and I heard on national news that cassettes are making a comeback!!
They were talking about how the Japanese love CD's and don't like to digital download.

I love September,Fall and probably the best Boombox weather for sure,so break out your cassettes and the Boombox and enjoy the cooler weather coming inevitably this month

 

[restocat]

 

[Matrixambience]

Cassettes and vinyl is actually outlasting the CDs in media storage! CDs are deteriorating and oxidizing, and media is erasing on them. Of course mp3 is just data and no soul to it so mp3 doesn't count.

 

[restocat]

vinyl is the only archive quality medium , of the ones you have mentioned.
mp3 is just an encoding/compression format, so in addition to having no soul,
it is destined to become outdated. I see people around my town selling their music collection because they 'transferred it all to cd, or to a hard drive. They are in for quite a shock when they realize their new medium was only designed to last for a few years.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

vinyl is the only archive quality medium , of the ones you have mentioned.
mp3 is just an encoding/compression format, so in addition to having no soul,
it is destined to become outdated. I see people around my town selling their music collection because they 'transferred it all to cd, or to a hard drive. They are in for quite a shock when they realize their new medium was only designed to last for a few years.

Or when that mechanical wheel stops spinning and all their music is gone for good!

I still got all my cassettes from high school and they all play fine 30+ years later

 

[Matrixambience]

Vinyl and cassette is outlasting CDs in longetivity recording storage. I have CDs that I recorded with my Pioneer CD burner from vinyl or mp3s downloaded from laptop onto cd drive, and the CDs are starting to skip, sound muffled or wow and flutter in and out. It's hilarious! I have store bought CDs from 1985 that are just now starting to deteriorate. The CDs are in the clamshell cases and in case logic nylon cases. Remember when CDs first were introduced they said they would last forever and no scratches like vinyl records would do. Drop a cassette tape in water, then take it out, let dry for a spell, then play it...and it would. Now drop an iPod in the water and take out and let dry....hmmmm. Maybe it will play again, but good luck.

 

[Northerner]

My daughter has twice dropped her iPod in water and once put it through the washing machine...still works lol. Still rather keep the important stuff on vinyl myself

 

[Ghetteaux Les Fabulous]

Here's a recording made in the 1960s by some guys in an office trying out their new CarryCorder 150....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpX0QvP0lk4

 

[Matrixambience]

Rare bird to have an iPod work after being exposed to water. Must have not been made on a Friday at 3 pm.

 

[restocat]

Ipods. This brings up a good related topic. People sink money into their itunes, thinking they will last forever.
If the ipod breaks, just download again.
The catch with this is thst you have to maintain membership, which can be taken away or voided at any time, by the company , for various reasons.

 

[trippy1313]

Of course mp3 is just data and no soul to it so mp3 doesn't count.

Yea I try to buy CD's, even though they won't last forever, I for now have a hardcopy in case something happens with my computer/mp3 junk. The cool thing is I mostly listen to music that was made with cassette tapes, so I always have a decent chance at finding them at yard sales & thrift shops, now that I have my boomers, I have something to play them on!!!