Listening to a 50-year old cassette on a Walkman from 1998… and it sounds really good.
In 50 years from now, will any of current streaming services still be around?
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@thomasfuchs My first thought was that you were saying 1998 was 50 years ago, and I just wasn't ready for that this morning.
@rotnroll666 @thomasfuchs Had the exact same thought myself. I picked up this 1978 Dutch made boombox which still works. Next level engineering
@gjmwoods @rotnroll666 chonky boy
I have this deck (made 1975–77)
@thomasfuchs @gjmwoods How is that stuff so much nicer than what we have today?
@rotnroll666 @thomasfuchs I think I just lost a bidding war on eBay for the same machine 😂
They are so much nicer. All the switches make satisfying clicks when you press them.
@gjmwoods @rotnroll666 my favorite is the tuning dial on the big chonky receivers, never has there been a user interface more satisfying to use
@thomasfuchs
Compact cassette was never and is still not a very high fidelity format. I like tapes and had several hundred at one point (back in the day), but they were for the car and my Walkman, not for my home hifi.
Lossless digital has been here for years and is just getting better and better. The bits will get bigger. All analogue formats are for possers, snobs and hipsters.
@thomasfuchs OMG is it 50 years since Oxygene? Damn, I'm old.
@bmoreinis dunn da da da dunn
Same cassette, same result. 😃
Tape hasn't been played for 35 years at least.
@thomasfuchs music, and possibly, we won't be around...
@thomasfuchs I think streaming services will not be around, but I hope I can still plug my HDD in and enjoy the media I digitally own
@thomasfuchs I have a Panasonic unit from the same era, sadly in need of new belts. They really were marvels of engineering. They’re not much bigger than the cases cassettes came in. Mine commuted with me to work for years.
@thomasfuchs and excellent tape too 👌😄 #jeanmichellejarre #oxygen
@thomasfuchs I remember enjoying that album. Now I feel old. You bastard.
@thomasfuchs
I love JMJ's music.
@thomasfuchs Voy a llamar al amigo @philspectrum para que vea esto.
Wow ! What's your secret!
Most of my old cassettes have got increasingly muffled,
Or the tape has stretched and/or broken
And the hiss certainly gets worse.
@thomasfuchs No, the streaming services will have gone, but the music, in full lossless digital quality will still be there.
Where exactly is that "there" in this scenario?
@elithebearded @julf @thomasfuchs
You would have to download it in a suitable format and store it on your own SD-cards or other storage media, and keep an eye on these over the years. So not so different from the cassette, but with no generation loss and physically smaller (be careful not to mislay some smaller storage media!)
I have to do this anyway to listen to music in the car, as every streaming app and the navi sound announcements fight (the transition between the two is jarring to the point of being a distraction when driving), and the music apps randomly blare out the music from the phone loudspeaker at full volume when I leave the car (often late at night), but SD card playback works well (can't use USB as the socket is occupied by an Android Auto wifi converter)
That "keep an eye on these over the years" doing a lot of heavy lifting
@elithebearded @julf @thomasfuchs
you have to do the same with magnetic tape, which can degrade in various ways, although cassettes can hold up quite well if kept in good condition. vinyl records seem to be the most resilient media, but aren't that portable (I was a DJ during the 90s, and hauled around many boxes of them!)
@vfrmedia @elithebearded @thomasfuchs As long as you don't leave the vinyl in the sun...
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