My two year old daughter just found an old cassette tape

[HeroOfPellinor]

Computer, boombox, portables, car, entertainment center.........all the different ways to play music..............all MP3 or CD. I'll bet it's even getting tougher to find tape decks at all.

She was looking at it like it was supposed to have an "on" switch and light up or something.

 

[waggy]

heh i still have the boombox i got for my 13th birthday!

my dad has a setup where he has a workign 8 track, tape and record player hooked up! yes he use's them all. He loves music and says some of them can't be found on anything else.

 

[Capt Caveman]

NVM

 

[effowe]

I still got a tape deck in my car from years ago when they were still partially relevant. I also have a stereo tape deck that's been collecting dust for a while, so it could be done. You could get one for dirt cheap from a pawn shop / garage sale.

 

[YoungGun21]

What are those?

 

[CKent]

I still have a pair of functioning tape decks in my old stereo I've had since I was a teenager. It's in my basement / workout room hooked up to my HTPC. Not that I've listened to a casette in the last decade, but I could

 

[Eos]

I bought a dual deck Sony just for transferring some old Loveline episodes to my computer. It was $40 at a local pawn shop. You can just see it down there under all that stuff.

desk

 

[BigToque]

what's a cassette tape?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I still have demo tapes from a few years ago when I was DJ'ing. I still have the stereo unit that I connected to my mixer to record them, too, so naturally I can play them back.

My stock stereo in my van has CD and tape deck in-dash.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I still have like 3 cassette players, as well as 4 VCR players. I think if I dug enough, I might find some Super 8 stuff.

 

[Evander]

Tapes are still good medium- just check out all the audiobooks at your local library

 

[ComputerWizKid]

Heh I still have one in my car that does not work I want to replace it though
Refer to this thread if you want to help me
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=85&threadid=2077760

 

[George P Burdell]

My car still has one. I use a cassette converter to plug in the iPod.

 

[Shadowknight]

My boombox has one on top; it also holds 6 CDs.

 

[BrokenVisage]

They need to make a USB-powered cassette player already.

 

[Fritzo]

What do you mean you don't have a cassette player? Have you looked underneath your record player?

 

[Colt45]

I've got a couple dual-deck units, but they're not hooked up...

 

[BoomerD]

I remember in the early 80's when my kids drug home a box of 8-track tapes someone at a yard-sale had given them...They were pretty disappointed that we had no way to play them.
GAWD! That makes me feel old...I remember when 8-tracks were the bomb!

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Evander
Tapes are still good medium- just check out all the audiobooks at your local library

I'm finding more and more audio books going to CD now and not even an audio tape option, especially now that newer cars (at least all the ones I know of) no longer come with tape decks.

Of course it really is a shame they have to use so many discs for audio books when compression (mp3 or whatever format) can easily fit just about any size book (unabridged to boot) onto one disc seeing as you can go to town with compression seeing as how it is only voice you have to worry about.

Of course I love doing that on my own...creating my own, complete audio books all on one disc and then playing it back in the mp3 CD player in the car - amazing for long road trips.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea audio books have been on cd for a long time now even at libraries.
sharing tapes is ick....dirty tapes!! never mind the pain in the ass of rewinding and stuff.
plus yea ripping cds is easy, ripping tape at 1x = painful man... not even worth the trouble.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
They need to make a USB-powered cassette player already.

"They" do, and have, for years.

 

[Shawn]

My dad gave my old stereo that had a tape deck away to the Goodwill a few years back.

 

[Shadowknight]

It's not like we have it the worst... we just can't play old music on outdated technology. But some robots LIVE in tape deck players and are now homeless! See at 1:15 mark http://youtube.com/watch?v=YtR4MSIVE5I

 

[potato28]

My parent's van has a tape deck in it, but we don't own any tapes.

 

[GeekDrew]

I actually bought a cassette tape adapter for my iPod today. I don't want to replace my car's stereo at the moment, and I've had only horrible experiences with FM transmitters, so cassette adapter it is. I'm actually surprised how well it's working.