I pledge fealty to the all powerful No Jive overlord. From the grey hairs on my beard, to the scrambled cinemax after dark television viewed on a tube RCA, to the wall mounted corded phone, no child shall pass the threshold of my yard without thorough scowls and verbal harassment.
Yeah tbh, that might actually be worth it. Modern tape players are garbage. If I am not mistaken, there is just a handful of companies now that produce the tape transports for all the modern machines and they are… not made well nor do they use quality components. Vintage is the way to go to get the most from your cassettes.
Here’s a video that touches on the problems with the modern cassette decks, linked to the part where he discusses this.
I got no problem with the cassette players, they are a phenomenal piece of equipment, the cassette tape, on the other hand, was one of the worst formats for playing music. The only thing worse was HitClips™
Excuse me, it was a perfect design. You carried around 10 songs and you were continuously burning more calories than hitting the gym. Plus, all the plastic jangling around, you could hear your friends coming from a mile away.
I really loved the Minidisc. I got into Minidiscs around the time they started to die out, but they were perfect to toss into my bag during college and carry a ton of good music.
I recently modded my old ipod with more storage (and a new, non beat-up shell) and have been putting all my CDs onto it. I stopped having a cd player a few years ago, but i never stopped collecting cds. Its been a really nice change to just using Spotify and just seeing whats new, now i can listen to older stuff i enjoy on repeat without distractions
Ah, yes, I love listening to 1/3 of a song because that’s all the clips storage could muster Truly, the best way to listen to songs
@rkalajian / @Pun1sh3R I never got into minidisk, old enough to know what they are, young enough not to be able to buy them, however, had I bought into the, I, for sure, would have gone all out with them. I truly am the worst trend picker.
I thought HD-DVD was going to take off
I thought Zune was going to hit big (not iPod big, but I couldn’t afford them anyway, so, naturally, they sucked)
I thought the vinyl revival was a fad (in fairness, it is kinda dying off again, so I wasn’t technically wrong, but it’s dying off because the record labels are taking mad advantage and upselling at about a 150-300% markup; greedy corps)
I’m sure there’s other losers I’ve picked but those ones definitely stood/still-stand out
However, HitClips, for sure, were never a pick for me, not that I didn’t enjoy them while they lasted.
Truly, the best way to listen to songs 
