Death of the cassette

[AliciaMayson1985]

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My father has a whole cupboard full of old cassettes with some of the old songs on them. I remember many years ago when we used to sit down in the room, listening to the music coming from his stereo.

Those were some pretty good times. Kind of pity that CD have pretty much superseded cassettes. The magic can never be replaced.

[Richard1978]

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I remember pre-recorded tapes being around to at least 2000, maybe some shops stopped selling them before then.

[darren]

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I have cassettes from 1990 to about 1994 i think.

remember buying them when they where first released.

They are mariah carey albums.

Must have been about 1995 they stopped making them but not too sure.

[akb48fan]

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I've kept some cassettes from when I used to tape songs from Radio 1 in the early 90's - back in the day when Steve Wright ruled the roost in the afternoon, Bruno and Liz were doing the Weekend Show and Jakkie Brambles had the Drivetime slot.

[fynger]

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I have a cassette player in my car.....i plug one of those converters in it and plug my Ipod into it.....lol

[Twocky61]

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I'm sure the police still use them for interviews. MP3s and other computer records are too easily tampered with, a few clicks of the mouse can get rid of 'SMACK! AAARRRRGHHH! KICK! PUNCH! OOOOFFF!' and just leave 'yeah yeah, I did it'. Try getting all of that off a cassette!

Strangely enough Stockportyears some of the remoter police stations do still use triple-deck tape recorders for interviews. Mostly though the police now use triple deck CD players. On both formats there is a running time & date back track you can hear as people are talking so they are tamper proof. Also some of the remoter police stations use ink for fingerprints whereas most now use the live terminal system which not only stores your fingerprints but also ID's you from your fingerprints. So false name & the police you will know you are lying

[stuckinthepast77]

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as im permenantly stuck in the past all my music is still on cassetteas i prefer this method of listening anyway guys,my trusty ghettoblaster comes out and away we go

[havasack]

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Like the above I had a tape in the player all the time just ready to record anything I liked. I still have several tapes full of a minutes worth of tracks. Got to disagree about the conveniance thing mind, with rewindable live radio, soundhound, spotify, youtube etc it's all so much easier now.

[goodbyetomaria]

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In days of yore when I had an idea for a tune, like countless others I would quickly record it on a cassette player so I would not forget it. Now if I want to record something quickly, I have to wade through a load of 'apps' on a phone, or set up some other digital recording equipment or some other thing which has awful quality in order to record the idea - by which time, I have forgotten the original idea. There is nothing I know which has the immediacy and convenience of a simple cassette recorder. All you had to do was press two buttons at the same time and you were away. I feel technology has passed this by. Perhaps someone could enlighten me.

[battyrat]

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The cassette heads in my player have not been used for so long they have sort of rusted up. Last time I used a cassette was possibly over 15 years ago. I do miss making up tapes of my favorite music. I used to have a vast vinyl collection and people always wanted tracks from me, so we used to swap. Ended up with a large collection of cassettes in the end. The ones I brought with music on them my brother got his hands on just after I moved in with my then girlfriend and wrecked the lot. Luckily he was not interested in the ones I taped myself. Gradually one by one my cassettes got chewed up, damaged or lost over the years. I don't have any left now. I have seen them on and off in Sainsbury's. Our charity shops now refuse to take cassette tapes along with video tapes. They find them too hard to sell on. We had someone at a boot sale last year who had hundreds of them and just could not give them away.

[maxmix]

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I have just joined a group on Facebook that "specialise" is 80's Ghetto Blasters/Boomboxes - plenty of cassette action!!

[darren]

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great to see you still use them mate i doubt many cars still have them.

i have a few cassettes and a tape player play them regular and till very good sounding as well.

and all yours come from ford cars mate.

I too still have a radio/cassette player in the Escort Eclipse the original Ford 2005 radio/cassette player, These old Ford cassette players are making top dollar on ebay as people want the original radios back in thier classic Fords. I have five boxes of old Ford Radios that i've collected over the years. I love cassettes and still have about 300 of them, but a mate of mine has 5000+ of them and they fill his spare bedroom, i've never seen so many. LOL.

[escorteclipse1990]

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I will continue to play cassettes in my car, afterall it's about 17 years old so I like to stick with consistency! Besides a radio-cassette is worth diddly-squit to Crack-Heads and Smack-Heads and other exotic types who inhabit our urban landscapes so it makes better sense.

I too still have a radio/cassette player in the Escort Eclipse the original Ford 2005 radio/cassette player, These old Ford cassette players are making top dollar on ebay as people want the original radios back in thier classic Fords. I have five boxes of old Ford Radios that i've collected over the years. I love cassettes and still have about 300 of them, but a mate of mine has 5000+ of them and they fill his spare bedroom, i've never seen so many. LOL.

[ayrshireman]

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Still have plenty of cassettes, blank and older albums.
Still buy cassettes from charity shops.

Argos still sell three different personal stereos, and you can buy some excellent new personal stereos from ebay. I have even bought a few recent albums from ebay (Arctic Monkeys etc), where the cassette album is from Eastern Europe or the Far East, where cassettes and personal stereos are still massively popular.

Last album bought on cassette in high st record shop: 2004 (The Coral)
Last album bought on cassette in second hand record shop: 2006 (Foo Fighters)

[marilynd04]

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Still have some cassettes - hate to throw them away. Use to love the little boxes the came in.