:) Cassette, CD player, Ipod...

R1D2

R1D2

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I still have a cassette player and a CD player. I got a cheap crapy Ipod. I liked my cd player the most. What's next, to replace the Ipod? The cell phone?
Any clues? And what do you like, and why....
 
MP3 players are good. I like being able to stick over 100 LPs worth of material in my pocket.
 
If you burn your own music CD's for the car CD player. You can get players that play MP3's and CD's can hold over a 100 song titles in MP3 format. It's kind of nice not having to changes CD's very often.
 
I have hundreds of songs on my phone. When I'm in my car I can plug it in. When I'm at the gym I can put in headphones. When I'm at home it will play through blue tooth.

If I hear a song I like, then I simply use the app Shazam. It lets me know the title of the song, and I can download the song in one minute flat. You can create playlist etc.. It doesn't get much better than that.
 
My cell phone plays MP3's and has 8Gigs of storage. Sadly, I don't listen to music other than in my car. I still remember when 8 track players were popular. I had one in my car when I was a teenager.
 
Bowser said:
My cell phone plays MP3's and has 8Gigs of storage. Sadly, I don't listen to music other than in my car. I still remember when 8 track players were popular. I had one in my car when I was a teenager.
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Well then this ought to make you feel young. We had a monaural record changer in a console with a black-and-white TV. It played 33s, 45s and 78s, and we had quite a few 78s. The reason we still call a single 33rpm disc an "album" is that originally you had to buy an "album" of six 78s to get twelve songs. Operas were recorded sequentially on the discs so the changer would drop the next one down for continuity. Then you'd flip the whole stack over and start again. So Side 12 was on the back of Side 1, and Side 7 was on the back of Side 6.

I have a huge library of homemade cassettes. Some are my own "best of" collections of my favorite bands or singers, others are just party tapes that are good for the car or the gym. Some day I'll get the hardware and software (and the time!) to transcribe them to MP3. Meanwhile I bought a spare Walkman (which are no longer being made) so when this one wears out I'll still be able to play my tapes.
 
They make a "player" you can buy here around sears, JCpennies, Belk. That plays radio. And plays an copies records tapes, and CD's. It copies them all to CD's and I think it could back up songs to the computer. It looks like a old time type radio. Not sure but I thought they sold around 200-245 dollars. I had thought about getting one. I have some or should I say my wife has a few records.
 
I'd be surprised if you don't already have everything you need to digitize your cassettes. All you need is a soundcard, $5 cable and a wave recorder.
 
Fraggle Rocker said:
Well then this ought to make you feel young. We had a monaural record changer in a console with a black-and-white TV. It played 33s, 45s and 78s, and we had quite a few 78s. The reason we still call a single 33rpm disc an "album" is that originally you had to buy an "album" of six 78s to get twelve songs. Operas were recorded sequentially on the discs so the changer would drop the next one down for continuity. Then you'd flip the whole stack over and start again. So Side 12 was on the back of Side 1, and Side 7 was on the back of Side 6.

I have a huge library of homemade cassettes. Some are my own "best of" collections of my favorite bands or singers, others are just party tapes that are good for the car or the gym. Some day I'll get the hardware and software (and the time!) to transcribe them to MP3. Meanwhile I bought a spare Walkman (which are no longer being made) so when this one wears out I'll still be able to play my tapes.
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Yep, we had a record player when I was young. My parents had a few33s in the house too, but damned if I ever listened to them except one. For some reason I thought it was funny....

http://youtu.be/VJHJAkhacGU

Apparently it's been revised...

http://youtu.be/35cx1T8nMb0
 
I had a 8 track tape player...

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Then a cassette then a CD but now I'm with a blue tooth type of a radio and all I need to do is load any songs from youtube on my cell phone or mp3 plater with blue tooth built in and I don't ever need any type of player any longer. Being able to load as many songs in any order that I want is much better than having to find which CD I have what music on. Since I enjoy all sorts of music I really don't want to pay for satellite radio. I just find what song or songs I want to hear at the time and play them, satellite won't allow me to choose what I like but only what it wants me to hear.
 
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Some time ago, hubby copied all of our CD's to the computer and a great deal also of his 900 album vinyl collection. At the music studio, we even have an operational reel-to-reel machine. Still have a cassette and DVD player around as well as all the current digital technology. Despite having CD and Aux in my vehicles, and owning an IPOD product red, I most often listen to the radio when driving to town to catch the local news and weather, lol...
 
gmilam said:
I'd be surprised if you don't already have everything you need to digitize your cassettes. All you need is a soundcard, $5 cable and a wave recorder.
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:) ya, if you know what your doing. I don't already have "everything" that's needed. So be surprised.
 
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