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I dig cassette exactly because they're so lo-fi. I like blindly buying some metal releases, if they are ok that's cool, if they are absolute poo poo it's no big deal, they're cheap and don't take much space. You also get the delicious tape saturation so lovely demo mixes that are awful digitally can sound somewhat charming
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Randaconda posted:I have a lot of nostalgia for cassette tapes. We were pretty poor, so I used to record songs off the radio I liked until I had the tape full then go dig up another blank tape.  though they weren't perfect  they were all pretty much all the povs had to work with, until napster
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ishikabibble posted:I actually did some reading into that stuff a while ago and the general consensus seemed to be there's not a big enough market for companies to care and even though the patents have expired, the intellectual property and trademarks of Dolby B/C/S/NR/etc are still around and lawyers will jump at your throat if you try to use them. So while you could throw every Dolby trick in the book at a player, you'd be basically unable to actually say that you did and communicate to consumers "yes this is Dolby NR it's the exact same technology we just can't call it Dolby NR but please if you have a tape with Dolby NR flick this switch on that isn't labeled anything related to Dolby NR to get Dolby NR". Seems like some manufacturer could just make their own chips, call it whatever they want, and strike a deal with tape manufacturers to include it on their tapes. Though I guess people who get tapes these days aren't super audiophiles and won't really care.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:39
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Randaconda posted:I have a lot of nostalgia for cassette tapes. We were pretty poor, so I used to record songs off the radio I liked until I had the tape full then go dig up another blank tape. I also remember just leaving a tape recording, hoping I would catch the song I wanted, then recording from that tape onto the actual mixtape once I got the song I wanted. I got really good at understanding which song was which in fast forward.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:44
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I have vintage audio as a hobby, and I've gone through 20-30 tape decks in the last two years. At best, tapes can sound aaaaaalmost as good as a CD, if you have a really expensive deck, good metal tapes and carefully match your recording levels to the peak search on your CD player. Also, just play some loving tapes, because tapes are fun, and the lo-fi sound is part of the charm!
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Jun 4, 2018 16:07
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Saw a guy on the train with a massive cassette tape tat. Well, that's my contribution.
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I disliked cassette tapes. Every single player I owned had a knackered 'FWD' button from having to endless forward and reverse to get past that song you don't like anymore, but not missing the beginning of the one you really like. And while the crackle of vinyl has character, the 'Hisssssssssssssssss' of tapes just sounded bad.
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Jun 4, 2018 22:34
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I recall lusting after one of these as a young'n, the FriendTech DreamX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrONeFj0p3A  1.4Ghz 
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Jun 5, 2018 00:08
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I used to buy records on vinyl and then make my own tapes on my dad's nice stereo equipment. I learned at an early age that I could make tapes that sounded better in every way than commercial tapes this way - using Cr02 or metal tapes and paying attention to the levels coming in from the record. So many commercial tapes were absolute poo poo quality - I'm looking at you, Arista. Also I taped songs off the radio for a while, too. 
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Jun 5, 2018 05:42
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Also I taped songs off the radio for a while, too. This was basically a summer tradition with me and my friends when we were hanging out, 'next up on *whatever radio station we're listening to* *song we need for the tape*' "SOMEONE GO PRESS RECORD RIGHT NOW HURRY" When it got late we'd put in request by phone to fill out whatever we were shooting for that week
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an actual frog posted:I recall lusting after one of these as a young'n, the FriendTech DreamX: That is incredibly cool, thanks for posting it!
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Jun 5, 2018 07:01
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Radio taping woes: I despised DJ's who would talk over the instrumental bits of a song and skillfully cut out just as the lyrics started.
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an actual frog posted:I recall lusting after one of these as a young'n, the FriendTech DreamX: I just modded my first OG Xbox and this came up on my related video list last night. Now I wanna open it up again and see if I can get that CPU in it.
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doctorfrog posted:Radio taping woes: I despised DJ's who would talk over the instrumental bits of a song and skillfully cut out just as the lyrics started. One of my oldest .mp3s is a version of A Perfect Circle’s Judith that had been originally ripped off the radio and had a DJ talking over the outtro. I heard it so many times now when I hear that song I shorted if I don't get that little stinger on the end.
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Cojawfee posted:Who didn't make dumb radio shows as a child? Hell yeah, I did. I had one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V-bMn4Zamw
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Jun 5, 2018 14:45
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Definitely had my share of radio-recorded mixtapes. The best songs were the ones with the DJ over the intro "This is by special request from [Flash Gordon Ramsay]." Of course, that's when DJs were allowed to make their own programming decisions, and not just read pre-written bumps in between songs on a playlist sent to them by Sinclair.
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Jun 5, 2018 15:09
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doctorfrog posted:Radio taping woes: I despised DJ's who would talk over the instrumental bits of a song and skillfully cut out just as the lyrics started. They did that specifically to mess with recordings. It’s weird how things like that just become part of the song to you. My mp3 of To Wish Impossible Things by The Cure had a couple spikes of static from I guess a smudge on someone’s disk or a transcoding error. Now 12 years later I still expect it to be there when I play the song even if it’s Spotify or something
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Jun 5, 2018 16:18
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Wasn't that actually a part of some weird legal requirement? That if they speak over the beginning and the end of the song, they get away with paying much less for it than if they just broadcast the song as-is, no talking over it. I seem to have read that somewhere ages ago, dunno if it's accurate.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:11
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Long time ago one of the radio stations where I lived had a promo where they promised that they would never talk over music like that. Didn't seem to catch on, though.
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Ruflux posted:Wasn't that actually a part of some weird legal requirement? That if they speak over the beginning and the end of the song, they get away with paying much less for it than if they just broadcast the song as-is, no talking over it. I seem to have read that somewhere ages ago, dunno if it's accurate. No but it's like a DJ dick waving thing if you get good at it.
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Jun 5, 2018 20:33
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Bum the Sad posted:No but it's like a DJ dick waving thing if you get good at it. Gotta hit that post while you keep it LIVE and LOCAL
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skooma512 posted:They did that specifically to mess with recordings. I had a low quality MP3 of ‘We are the Champignons’ by TISM that I downloaded from limewire circa 2001. In the intro there were two little shots of static that always bugged me, so I spent years trying to track down the album which by that point had been out of print for over a decade. Once I finally got a copy, I discovered that the static was on the CD itself 
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In my ripped-from-CD version of Beethoven's Last Night, there's a high blip right at the song transition between two tracks, at a quiet moment. I listened to that album so much that, after copying everything to Google play music, I still preemptively flinch between the two songs, even though the blip isn't there. It's been like five years and I still expect it.
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Bum the Sad posted:No but it's like a DJ dick waving thing if you get good at it. Long time ago some porn star or something on Howard Stern was saying how his job was stupid and easy and anyone could play records and say what song it is. He explained the whole "talking right up to when the song kicks in" thing and she insisted anyone could do that. So Howard said "ok, have at it" and put on Freebird.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Long time ago some porn star or something on Howard Stern was saying how his job was stupid and easy and anyone could play records and say what song it is. He explained the whole "talking right up to when the song kicks in" thing and she insisted anyone could do that. So Howard said "ok, have at it" and put on Freebird. A now-defunct rock station around here had a really dumb intern and they did this to him but with some tool song that has like 150 seconds before the singing starte
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The sequel nobody wanted on the format nobody uses
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Regular Nintendo posted:The sequel nobody wanted on the format nobody uses
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Casimir Radon posted:It gets better. They were projecting it in a theater. This is galaxy brain levels of 
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https://help.yahoo.com/kb/messenger/SLN28776.htmlYahoo, who are of themselves a Tech Relic, posted:Yahoo Messenger will be discontinued
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So, what's left after that goes?
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Iron Crowned posted:So, what's left after that goes? Believe it or not, ICQ is still very alive. There's also Trillian if you're into that, though most people used it as a frontend for other services rather than Trillian's own Astra network.
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I didn't even know Trillian had its own thing. When I used it, it was just as a way to combine AIM, MSN, and maybe something else into one application.
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Wild. I have friends still using this service who are shocked by the news and thy're younger than me. I feel like I live in some weird inverse world
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Jun 8, 2018 17:47
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Iron Crowned posted:So, what's left after that goes? IM services in general, or just the old guard, the originals?
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didnt everyone switch to facebook messenger already anyway
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Jun 8, 2018 17:51
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Most people who still use IM at all seem like they’ve moved onto Skype or Discord
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Jun 8, 2018 18:37
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Not here. FB Messenger rules supreme. Some people use WhatsApp, but not very many. I've tried getting people to use Signal or Wire, but they're not really interested, because "everyone else is on Messenger and I don't want to use two apps".
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I thought WhatsApp was dominant globally, though I guess that's technically Facebook now. My circle of friends and family uses Hangouts because they're a mix of techies and Project Fi converts.
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Iron Crowned posted:This is galaxy brain levels of The other theater here has an actual movie server that can show first run movies. Unfortunately it's a metal building with exposed HVAC. Both have cobbled together audio setups that could use some real work.
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