Cassettes, cheap!
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CamelCamelCamel.
You have to pay with physical money (gold). No fiat US$ empty promise is accepted ;)
And if you share them around your friends, its a Social Media
And if you share copyrighted music via cassette tapes. You are a pirate.
Aahhh I miss my Sharp dual tape recorder…1 mate would buy the cassette, and we'd copy err (arr?) "pirate" them. Double speed if weren't worried about quality…
@willyroo: Used to do that with Commodore 64 games but in normal speed, games wouldn't work when dubbed in double speed
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Any blank minidisc deals??
That is and will always be my favourite physical media.
I'm amazed how long my minidisc player would run on a single aa battery..
I perfected the art of tape splice with sticky tape. Skills I haven't utilised since 1988. Should I take it off my resume…
I thought you were going off on a Taken rant
I have a particular set of skills, skills that make me dangerous to a tape like you. I have not utilised them since 1988 but if provoked, I will buy you, and I will splice you
Why am I reading this in a Russian accent?
Is the sssssss sound caused by an old tape?
Good luck.
This is a surprisingly good price, people are flogging used ones for more than this..
Assuming you have a working cassette player, ideally with nice VU meters, you could record your playlist to it and then play it back for a Lo-Fi dinner party, or vintage Christmas day
You could, but it would only be because you actively want your music to sound worse than basically any other option available to you (I say this as someone with a hi-fi tape teck, CD player, minidisc player, record player, raspberry pi with attached DAC, pianola player piano, group of raccoons trained with kazoos…)
The sole advantages of tapes were size compares to records and the ability to record at home. Both of those are obviously destroyed by digital music.
You're forgetting the real advantage - non-skipping playback on the move. Before the first 16mb MP3 player your options were Walkman or portable CD player and the latter would skip if you jostled it. More expensive CD players had a few seconds of buffer, but it might still fail…
Which if you're on headphones is a bit annoying but if you're rocking a boombox on your shoulder pumping up the JAMS for the people is just embarrassing. They had CD boomboxes but they just weren't the same as the classic 80s Ghetto Blasters.
Fair, although minidisc was vastly superior on that front - still have my minidisc walkman, which plays for some ridiculous number of hours on a single AA battery.
@caitsith01: It's a crying shame Sony crippled the format with DRM. It could have replaced CDs and was portable and high capacity enought to be competitive with the early MP3 players much longer than the diskman was.
@Minimum chips: Agreed, and they also had confusing formats with longer playing versions etc etc so that minidiscs were not universally compatible. But the underlying tech was terrific.
This. The Sony walkman was all the rage in the 80s - pretty much a large brick that chewed through batteries. The inferior discman came along much later..
The sole advantages of tapes were size compares to records and the ability to record at home.
The unintended advantage was that it was hard work to skip around so you actually listened to whole song right through and even while albums. And the limited capacity meant I focussed on 1-2 albums and got deeper into them than I can do now drinking from a fire hydrant.
Some cassette players had skip function where it would fast forward through the track you didn't like looking for the blank spot between tracks.
I totally understand buying a walkman-esque player for existing tapes you already have, but buying blank tapes to copy digital media to seems odd.
More than odd. I fell off my chair when I saw tapes on ozbargain. Go buy a thumb drive.
Lo-Fi
How dare you
Assuming you have a working cassette player, ideally with nice VU meters
Like this one?
80’s Bluetooth Boombox with CD Player and Cassette Deck $229
Boom box
Back in my day that was a ghetto blaster
Drop that ghetto blaster!
Darn this is so cool !
Ahh, you're making me regret selling my Akai amp that had these - I just had no space for it. :(
That is odd, I also had an Akai amp with VU meters!
It was an AM2350 - I only sold it around three or four months ago.
I had two, one for parts. Was using it for around two years as a daily on my TV - mainly got it for phono haha
I remember these.
Nooo, hunt for real walkmans on ebay. I got this one https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sony_walkman_fmam_radio_casset…
This one doesn't have Dolby.
If you know, you know.
You mean Dobly ;-)
Zomg I think I owned that exact model
Or get one with Bluetooth!
https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005003679052657.html?src=goo…
Though, I'm not sure if I am comfortable with the way you insert the cassette on that "walkman".
Gandalf! … I was there. I was there 3000 years ago …
Mixtape time!
Was about to drop one.
Don't, if the plastic has gotten brittle it might break.
Need pencil deal to go with this, anyone have suggestion?
faeber castell 2B
Any Dalorean DMC-12 deals to go with this?
Theres a deal on shoulder pads.
Nah, not needed, I already signed a gym contract last decade
Delorean. And, no.
Thanks Merty
Username checks out
DeLorean
I deserve a "you're fired" fax.
Nice set of wheelz
I feel old by just looking at this.
I feel old by just knowing what this is lol
Ooohh been there. When the cassette player tangles the magnetic strip.
Time to clean the pinch rollers…..
Perfect for secret Santa
Gift it to a gen z to stump them.
They're too busy with youth crime to notice anything else
Statistically, no. The kids are OK.
I've no way of utilising these, but just seeing them warms my heart.
I still have one of those state-of-the-art players, which could play either side without switching the tape over. Now I only use its digital clock on my bedside table.
which could play either side without switching the tape over
That technology is called AutoReverse™ you ignorant savage.
and if you were lucky you had a deck which allowed you to have it auto-reverse perpetually… et voilà, continuous music :-)
I still have mine which you could switch tracks on, without having to guess where it stops
Still plays my Best of 100% Hits ‘93 too!
If I bought these I can record songs off the radio!!!
Bought 5 packs :-)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Go chrome or go home.
but I prefer Safari
Not Chrome, chrome.
don't be so tape bias
@McFly: This is a lie. Your Edward Van Halen tape is a Maxell
https://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/project/high-quality-mart…
I remember getting my first Chrome, or Type-II ?
Freegan amazeballs !
….and never went back.
Came to make this comment or to upvote this one. Normal bias is a waste if time, unless you want you recording to sound like it's being suffocated by a pillow
TDK does amazing things….to my system
shit…wrong tape!
Last one!
I used to buy them by the box back in the day, great tape. Buy a record, play it once to record it then put the record back and never play it again. :)
Or in my Uni days (1990's), hire the record from Batman Records in Swanston St for like $3 on my way home from Uni ;) I still have a stack of classic 90's Albums (Pearl Jam, Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Guns 'N' Roses) recorded to TDK SA-X and they still sound amazing playing on a Pioneer tape deck with Dolby C.
waiting for Zune deals
These will be great in about 32 years.
Wear a yellow radiation suit, and wake your father by playing Van Halen at full blast.
Oh, and don't forget to write back and tell me who wins the next thirty-two World Series.
Do they have Apple airplay?
Who will provide tap recorder and player?
Santa. Were you a good boy this year?
Lump of coal for bhavesh8sep
Sweet, used to be able to buy these direct from Maxel here https://shopmaxell.com.au/product-category/recordable-media/…
And I'm talking like 18 months ago I bought some.. Now gone :( Might have to pick some up for safety.
Unironically bought 3 packs. Cheers!
now this is physical media