Ravemetal

[Taro Toporific]

Riddle me this Batboy?
Why make an MP3 player shaped like a crappy audio cassette?
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/goodwill/449874/467368/470229/

[Caustic Saint]

Riddle me this Batboy?
Why make an MP3 player shaped like a crappy audio cassette?
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/goodwill/449874/467368/470229/

So you can listen to your MP3s on your car's cassette deck.

Next.

[Taro Toporific]

Riddle me this Batboy?
Why make an MP3 player shaped like a crappy audio cassette?
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/goodwill/449874/467368/470229/

So you can listen to your MP3s on your car's cassette deck.

Next.

Dang, ya had me double checking that one. It works in kinky Bisexual ways, as a recorder/ripper. It seems to let you record from a cassette deck to your RaveMetal MP3 player as well as play through it.

The RaveMetal site says...

The MPs sound recording from the analog output terminal of the audio equipment and audio sound recording with the built-in microphone is possible.

[AssKissinger]

Taro, please don't dis cassettes. They're my old friends. I'll put just my cassettes against damn near anybody's entire music collection, by the way.

[Andocrates]

Recording in my thing and the cassette was the worst format in the history of recorded sound. 8 tracks were much better because the tape was wider.

Cassette was so bad a high pitched hiss had to be inserted on the tape to trick your ear into thinking there was a high end, this was different then the natural hiss of tape which had to be masked with dolby, further destroying the music. The bandwidth was awful, they shed iron oxide all over your player heads, they wore out, the tapes broke, they wouldn't play if it was cold or hot.

Please, talk about the good old days but NOT one of the worst inventions in modern history.

[AssKissinger]

8 tracks were much better because the tape was wider.

When 8-Tracks came out they were totally awesome and revolutionary. It was the first time you could listen to anything besides the radio in your car. Or bring a little portable deal with you to the beach.

Cassette was so bad a high pitched hiss had to be inserted on the tape to trick your ear into thinking there was a high end,

You still can't tell a good cassettte recording from a CD.

dolby, further destroying the music

Dolby is horrible. It destroys the sound. I never bought into the lie of dolby. All it did was like turning the treble all the down thus taking all the sparkle out of the music. If there was a hiss it didn't matter because it's like the airconditioner you don't really know it.

they wore out, the tapes broke

That's true. Many of my cassettes have been listened to to death. But at the time there was no way I could have had nearly such a large a music collection. Seeing the death of some of my favorite mix tapes was sad indeed. But it's better to have lost at love than to never have loved at all.

In the late 80's and early 90's cassettes brought forth an entire generation of underground music.

Roir tapes Hit It Girls Which back in the day was cassette only introduced the world to the Bad Brains Hit It Girls

1982 saw the release of the Bad Brains cassette on ROIR

And Glenn Branca which first brought together Lee Renaldo and Thurston Moore who would eventually form Sonic Youth the greatest guitar duo in rock'n'roll history. Plus there was the life changing cassette culture Hit It Girls Brought to me by zines such as Sound Choice which introduced me to a whole universe of non-corporate cock sucking rock'n'roll.

These days as I'm slowly making my way converting hundreds of cassettes over to md for back-up I will never forget what the medium has brought to me. The walkman, the four track recorder and freedom. God Bless You Cassettes. Real music lovers of my generation will never forget what you did for us!

[Taro Toporific]

These days as I'm slowly making my way converting hundreds of cassettes over to md for back-up ...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Not MD. Please archive your own AK-ing music in a couple of formats.
Save it to some lossless format, like AIFF, Shorten, etc. Then rip it a MD, MP3 whatever.

And don't throw away the cassetes. Keep the analog tape and spare player in grandma's attic. Future tech might make cleaner recovery possible. I feel real sorry for the people that converted their Super8 home movies to crappy VHS 'cause nowadays those Super8 films can be ripped to high-def DVDs that let you enlarge individual stills cleanly. Right now I'm dragging the depths of Aikhabra trying to find the laser "needle" LP turntable to recover my one and only LP of analog electronica. Remember posterity/POSTERIOR!!

[AssKissinger]

LT-1LRC Plays LP and 45 rpm $10,500
LT-1XRC Plays LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm $13,300
LT-2XRC Plays LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm
Also plays any size, including 7", 8", 9", 10", 11" and 12" $14,300

I don't think dropping a needle in the groove is that big a deal. I mean they only need to last for your lifetime. A lot of my vinyl is 25 years old and still perfect.

don't throw away the cassetes

Don't worry, I'd rather die.

[Taro Toporific]

LT-1LRC Plays LP and 45 rpm $10,500
LT-1XRC Plays LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm $13,300
LT-2XRC Plays LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm
Also plays any size, including 7", 8", 9", 10", 11" and 12" $14,300

I don't think dropping a needle in the groove is that big a deal. I mean they only need to last for your lifetime. A lot of my vinyl is 25 years old and still perfect.

The deal is the laser turntable for LPs will play cracked, broken and wildly warped records. It'll recover almost anything on vinyl as long as the pieces are all there. Warping up to 3cm is no major problem. I was listening to morons in the Library of Congress who said in an NPR interview last month they just threw away hundreds a broken WPA blues records. Arrrrrg... the laser turntable could recovered most of the them.

[AssKissinger]

they just threw away hundreds a broken WPA blues records.

Geez, that's terrible

[mr. sparkle]

LT-1LRC Plays LP and 45 rpm $10,500
LT-1XRC Plays LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm $13,300
LT-2XRC Plays LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm
Also plays any size, including 7", 8", 9", 10", 11" and 12" $14,300

I don't think dropping a needle in the groove is that big a deal. I mean they only need to last for your lifetime. A lot of my vinyl is 25 years old and still perfect.

The deal is the laser turntable for LPs will play cracked, broken and wildly warped records. It'll recover almost anything on vinyl as long as the pieces are all there. Warping up to 3cm is no major problem. I was listening to morons in the Library of Congress who said in an NPR interview last month they just threw away hundreds a broken WPA blues records. Arrrrrg... the laser turntable could recovered most of the them.

A shame about the records, but wow, too bad the wheels of steel are so expensive.

My dad has a classic 1950's bebop vinyl collection with quite a bit of damage to many of the discs. I think my step mom threw a lot of them - along with some of the old family photos - away (NOOOOOO!!)...she hates jazz and pix of my mom - i call her "the cleanser".

Unfortunately, my brother and I as children ruined many of them playing DJ scratch time as they were "within our reach" back in the mid 60's. To this day, I'm apologizing for that.

Lesson: Keep jazz records out of the hands of children!

[Andocrates]

In the late 80's and early 90's cassettes brought forth an entire generation of underground music.

I forgot how cassettes spawned the home recording boom, without which there would be no hip-hop or garage bands like weezer. So, that justifies the cassette right there. Sorry.