Do you miss audio cassettes (tapes) OT ?

I still've around 300 audio cassettes (tapes) , couple of old SONY music systems tucked away lol. Used to listen to cassettes till 2002 very much.Tried playing them today as nostalgia, music coming out damp and very slow :(. Should i fix em or just throw em away OT ?

Do you miss Audio Cassette , VHS , Walkman era OT ? :)

No I do not. I-pods, DVD's/Blu-Ray etc. are more convenient.

If they are important to you then perhaps you should try and fix them.

Nope because I never lived it. Would be cool to experience though.

They hold a sweet nostalgic feeling, but fixing and maintaining em gonna cost me also i guess. Will Think on it :)

Most of my cassettes melted in the car. The rest I tossed because they got ate by the player or were too old and stretched that they sounded like crap.

No, I don't miss magnetic tape of any variety. What a pain in the ass.

No one in their right mind would miss cassette tapes
No easy way to find songs, no easy way to get songs onto them, cumbersome, poor quality sound
They were cute back in the day, thats about it

I hated rewinding them with a pencil.

Don't miss them at all...my crappy player had the habit of eating them...I'd spend more time untangling it and putting it back together hoping it wouldn't snap rather than listening to music XD

Not the cassettes themselves but rather those days ; I miss those days pretty bad.

me too

My life was sooooooooo f'ed up those days....even thinking about them hurts XD

My life was actually good those days ... now fvcked up pretty bad XD

@indzman: On the bright side you're older and hopefully a bit wiser, so you have all the tools to turn your life into a good thing. You seem like a smart guy, so I know you can do it =D

I echo Indie.

@indzman said:

@korvus said:

@indzman: On the bright side you're older and hopefully a bit wiser, so you have all the tools to turn your life into a good thing. You seem like a smart guy, so I know you can do it =D

The laughter means you're desperate to bring about the change ; to be frank so am I :(

Got any NKOTB?

No. Never a good format.

I've only experienced walkmans and VHS. Don't miss them at all.

Nope.

Reminds me of the days I was still young and struggling. Early 90's photo of my first DIY PC. I was also still a dorm rodent. I just started the transition to CD. Most of my stuff were still VHS and cassette.

Along with cassette and VHS were 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks and beige PC. ;)

I miss the novelty of them. Not so much the hassle of rewinding or forwarding them to get to your desired song.

Do I miss poor quality audio in the form of a cassette that required minutes of fast forwarding and rewinding to get to my favorite song?

Absolutely not.

I miss unrolling them and throwing them over peoples trees.

When I still lived in Nevada, I used to hold on to one end of the cut tape and then throw the cassette out the window while driving. Beside stop signs full of bullet holes and animal road kill, the highways in Nevada used to be littered with cassette tapes.

haha, hear, hear

good call.

I don't miss them I miss record albums at times though.

Nah, vinyl is where it's at. And I still purchase it regularly.

No.

They are an wholly inferior audio medium. If convenience isn't a factor, vinyl is the best for sound quality and CD is a distant second (not to mention the cassette's terrible problem with degrading over time). If convenience is a factor, MP3 and it's related devices takes the show and runs away with it.

Wuts Vinyl ???

Id think itd be cheaper to buy a working player instead of fixing the busted one you got, where would you even go to have it fixed anyhow? :o

No, they suck. Digital is life-changing and a necessity in my life.

Million dollar question , very true. Who'd fix it ? I guess i've to let go of the past.

Nearly 100 year-old technology that has higher audio fidelity than the best digital files.

Not at all. Aside from voice recording, CDs/MP3 players do everything cassettes did only a lot better. A smartphone today can be seen as a vastly upgraded tape recorder, in that most if not all of them can play music and record audio.

Nope. I do miss the times when they existed.. but not the tapes.

MJ's "Bad" on cassette?

Huh, I just got the album for 99p on Amazon a few weeks ago. Lovin' it!

I don't miss tapes. They were such a pain.

Yes and no

No because of the inevitable degradation of quality and the painstaking process of reattaching or recasing a tape. Yes because of the time it represented, and certain genres of music lent itself well to the audio cassette. I recall dance music for example feeling a little more humanised on cassette, certainly when listening to mix tapes recorded at warehouse parties. When I first listened to a mix CD all those once invisible frequencies were laid bare, all of a sudden it lost a little soul and meaning. Also the effort you had to put in - yes it was a pain in the arse forward/re-winding, however that forced your hand with how you interacted with music. These days I find myself flicking between one of thousands of compressed files with lesser appreciation for entire albums.

In the past era of less effective music distribution, those little C90 mix tapes that you gave / received were little goldmines of new / past bands you would have otherwise never heard of. This remained (if I recall correctly) the only medium to distribute self-made compilations between friends until way into the 90s (I know I never had the capacity to make a mix CD until fairly late on), so yes it remained a valuable format for some time past the introduction of the CD and so should be at least a little cherished for that alone.

I have heard of a resurgence of artists recording back onto tape (decent R2R not just on a C60 or whatever) because of the quality of the format, although have yet to actually see anything commercially available. Another micro-fad perhaps... Still with people simply amassing thousands upon thousands of shitty MP3/4 formatted tunes with ever decreasing appreciation of the music itself (I find myself being guilty of this from time to time), I guess harking back to times past isn't such a bad thing.

Ramble over.

Hell no they sucked listening to my I-pod is so much more convenient.

Why is it surprise ? MJ's all music came on cassette , record before MP 3 =P

No, I hated untangling the tape when it got caught

Holy **** no. Cassettes were the worst medium. I don't like this whole vinyl resurgence, but whatever. Im fine with digital media. **** cassettes.

not at all

What's wrong with vinyl? It has higher audio quality than CD's.

*Running off to check Wiki*

@indzman: No I don't but I do miss LPs.

Analog has the best fidelity. But, it's also hard to filter out any noise that's in the signal. Digital makes it easy to filter out noise. But, you lose a bit of the original fidelity in the process.