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Once again I feel moved to say how impressed I am with this format. 40+ year old cassettes still sound so good. It helps I have a decent deck to play them on of course, but still…. #BlueNote #cassettes #tapes #PhysicalMedia #jazz
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Cassette has been repaired! I’d ordered some superglue but the self adhesive pads were VERY self adhesive so not required. Mr Blakey and his Messengers are back to sounding great again. #BlueNote #cassettes #tapes #PhysicalMedia #jazz
This also arrived from Italy. It was mint, unopened, and sounds terrific. It is now providing the #JonsCookingMusic for BBQ prep. Jazz and a glass of red wine 
#cassettes #tapes #PhysicalMedia #jazz
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Doh. Well it was sounding superb. Then the felt pressure pad came loose. I’ve actually a couple of tapes where I need to replace the pad, so just got a strip of self adhesive ones from eBay. Nice little weekend job 
These tapes will never catch on…..
Thursday night #JonsCookingMusic with the first of the #BlueNote tapes to arrive. A bit of Art Blakey. Must say, sounds very good indeed. #cassettes #tapes #PhysicalMedia #jazz
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I mean, one on its own wouldn’t do that. But two is a collection, right?
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This, along with a cheap Art Blakey Blue Note cassette I found recently, has kick started a whole new collecting phase. Jazz on cassette tape. #jazz #JoeHenderson #TheKicker #cassettes #tapes #PhysicalMedia
Of course after finding that #BBCMaster video again, YouTube thinks that I should see someone who was not even yet born in the 20th century going on about the woes of typing in PETSCII copied from computer magazine listings. (-:
It's not in fact an experience that I can relate to. I loaded/saved PET programs from/to tape, and never had a C64.
Come to think of it; you don't see many of the #retrocomputing crowd using #cassettes, do you?
Retrocomputers! You haven't had the complete experience until you've accidentally unplugged the headphone jack and listened to the code. No, it doesn't sound like modem handshaking.
MOTOR ON
On the day the #Maxell blank #cassettes arrived I tried to see if if the new-to-me #Pioneer CT-300 #cassette player from the #80s still records fine.
It's going to need some work. The seller sadly somewhat "oversold" its working condition. Fortunately it's fairly easy to find replacement belts, I just need to wait a bit.
I like how this photo came out though 
#Mood #Analog #Retro #RetroAudio #VintageAudio #Vinyl #NowPlaying #Audio #Music #Stereo #NowSpinning #AudioCassette #Tapes #Nostalgia
Tengo puesto un docu en la ZDF sobre #cassettes que le encantaría a @osr 
Another of those rare Canadian #cassettes of Bowie's Low is up on FleaBay where the cassette label has the original album title of New Music:Night and Day where the Canada plant had jumped the gun b4 last min title change. Looks genuine & as such has already reached 80 quid plus. #DavidBowie #Bowie
My nephew Eric is the proprietor of Geology Records, a Wisconsin label that releases one or two cassettes a year in small runs of 50 to 100 tapes. As Eric says, music is a “healing force”.
#music #cassettes
Interview on Bandcamp: https://daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-report/the-tape-label-report-february-2025
Label page for catalog: https://geologyrecords.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp Daily · The Tape Label Report, February 2025Five tape labels to know and love even more than you did before you knew they existed.
Oh heyyyyyy … it’s officially #BandcampFriday in the US!
And @hilljam & I have just launched the pre-sale for 80s kids.
And not only the #vinyl , #cassettes , and #CDs …
But also tees, tanks, and WALKMANS.
Ya heard me! Walkmans.
If you’ve been thinking about getting first dibs on 80s kids goodies, today’s a great day to do it.
https://shannoncurtis.bandcamp.com/album/80s-kids
THANK YOU, fedi friends!
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... cuuuuute tees and tanks — 6 different designs!
... limited-edition #cassettes!
https://shannoncurtis.limitedrun.com/categories/80s-kids-pre-sale
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Magnetic tape recordings used in videotapes and cassette tapes, which were popular up to the 2000s, are at risk of being lost as the tapes deteriorate and replay equipment are no longer produced. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/03/japan/society/magnetic-tapes-2025-problem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #digitalization #museums #yokkaichi #mie #cassettes
The Japan Times · Magnetic tapes at risk without digitization, archive groups warn
A ver, no se dice "Vendo lote de cintas vírgenes grabadas". Cómo van a ser vírgenes si ya están GRABADAS!!? En todo caso será: "Vendo lote de cintas grabadas" (y lo de pedir 1,50€ por cada cinta grabada y usada cuando las tienes en el chino a 0,95€ es ya otro cantar... Ay madremia!)
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Perhaps Mastodon can suggest stuff for me about #audio #archiving.
On a technological level I know what I'm doing (codecs, cables, tape mechanisms, etc.) but I'm struggling with making decisions.
I have a load of old type 1 #cassettes that I want to archive. I have the hardware to do it in high quality but I cannot make up my mind what to archive them as.
FLAC seems pointless given the quality of the source material but I cannot decide what is a sensible compromise between storage and faff!
R.E.M.
Dead Letter Office
1987 Canada cassette
Chromium Dioxide, silver text
You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of the I.R.S. R.E.M. records than yours truly.
Dead Letter Office has eluded me on vinyl, so when i saw this cassette version today, I jumped on it.
Filled with a slew of covers (including THREE Lou Reed penned songs), I love it for the b-sides from the singles released between Murmur and Life’s Rich Pageant.
