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smg01Driving to work this morning one of the DJs on the radio was talking about how the Smithsonian has consigned the cassette tape to the archive section (I think it was archive it was some other section). The upshot being that the cassette has essentially landed on the dustbin of history.
The other DJ was saying that her frustration with tapes had always been that you couldn't skip tracks. You were stuck with the fastforward and rewind button. (I remember those days. "oh! not quite far enough." "Oops, too far!") That led into the discussion of 8 tracks and a disagreement between them as to whether you could select tracks and/or rewind and fast forward. A few people called in with their input. The consensus wound up being that there were tracks, but there were 3 or 4 songs on each track. So you could skip to other parts of the 8 track, but you couldn't skip to specific songs. That tracks with my memory too. There was less consensus about whether you could rewind and fastforward them.
Aww, good old 8 tracks. Another item on the dustbin of history. For some reason, they always make me feel fondly nostalgic.
The other DJ was saying that her frustration with tapes had always been that you couldn't skip tracks. You were stuck with the fastforward and rewind button. (I remember those days. "oh! not quite far enough." "Oops, too far!") That led into the discussion of 8 tracks and a disagreement between them as to whether you could select tracks and/or rewind and fast forward. A few people called in with their input. The consensus wound up being that there were tracks, but there were 3 or 4 songs on each track. So you could skip to other parts of the 8 track, but you couldn't skip to specific songs. That tracks with my memory too. There was less consensus about whether you could rewind and fastforward them.
Aww, good old 8 tracks. Another item on the dustbin of history. For some reason, they always make me feel fondly nostalgic.
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Date: 2007-06-05 04:02 pm (UTC)I never liked cassette tapes either except for making my own mix tapes. I stuck with record albums way too long even after CDs came out. *g*
I still wonder why anyone thought 8 track players were a good idea. They didn't sound any better and the track changes in the middle of songs really bugged me, but I can remember other people telling me they didn't care about that.
CDs are better, but digital music players (on the computer or portable) are so much better. *g* I wonder what they'll come up with next so that I have to repurchase all my music yet again. *g*
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Date: 2007-06-05 05:52 pm (UTC)"I refuse to buy a cd player until someone can assure me that it's absolutely the last thing they're going to invent.......Those crazy people on the streets that you see talking to themselves? They' the ones that 8 track players." Hee!
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Date: 2007-06-06 04:32 am (UTC)They did eventually come up with tape decks that could fast forward, but there had to be enough space between songs for it to stop. It wouldn't work on Pink Floyd CDs and then it's would stop fast forwarding at the blank spot right before the guitar solo in "Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin. ;)
I started repurchasing a bunch of CDs with the much better sounding SACD hybrids (plays in a regular CD player, but even better in an SACD player) but then Sony stopped making them. Grr. DVD Audio still exists though with the better sound, but both DVD Audio and SACD require you to hook up the players with the full set of surround sound cables and will not send the signal through the optical digital output. So, I have a player that will play both, but can't listen to it as my cabinet makes it next to impossible to hook this up correctly. I'd have to drill a new hole in the back of of the cabinet. Not happening.
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Date: 2007-06-06 02:08 pm (UTC)(I'm only kinda kidding.)
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Date: 2007-06-07 03:34 am (UTC)I had also invested in minidisc stuff. I liked that better than cassettes as you could re-record, but otherwise it acted like a CD. Then someone broke into my car and stole my portable player. They are still around, but far, far, far from popular and I don't know if anyone released albums in that format anymore. (And it also annoyed me that the albums and the blanks came in different sized packaging, which made no sense, storage-wise.)
Now they really want our money as sales have considerably dropped.