Ever wondered what to do with those old cassettes that don't play or don't use anymore?

how about this then?


cassette on canvas

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What was on the tape?

The White Album



ROCKMAN

Very clever , there are some very artistic and creative people .

IORR............but I like it!



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I see big hair is a must. Can they do wigs as well?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2009-05-09 15:05 by slasausjes.

I've found one with NO hair:

Whaddaya mean?? Ya say ya dont play yer cassette tapes no more?

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Baboon Bro
Whaddaya mean?? Ya say ya dont play yer cassette tapes no more?

Nope - I gave up learning korean.

I have a bunch I have to get rid of. I'm replacing them with the CD version - no small undertaking for sure.

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slasausjes
I see big hair is a must. Can they do wigs as well?

what about grey hair and bandanas?

got a tape player in my car along with cd; still have many tapes that I may never replace w/cd so I still listen to'em.

I put old recordings that are unique on CD.

I kept all of my old cassettes in a big box ,including of course the Stones K7.



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

I still have my 2 Stones tapes that I've saved along with some others that I know I won't be able to find on disc, and some tapes where the cover on the tape is different from that of the CD for some reason.

What do we think of this then?

[www.telegraph.co.uk]

The only tape I threw that I miss was Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl

The only cassette tapes I occasionally listen to is that of my own music. I am in the very slow process of listening to over 200 hours of jam sessions from 1994 thru 2005 with a goal of putting the best 10 to 15 hours on CD.

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barbabang
What do we think of this then?

[www.telegraph.co.uk]

Interesting article .
I still have at my parents' place a :
(don't know how to call it in english )

Hours and hours of music live ....

No tapes left anymore in my collection. Anyone remember when the tape got jammed or stuck and you had to open it up (if it had screws) and try to release the tape and then end up getting it all over the place and having to re-spool the whole damn thing. Or was it just me who did that?

Andy

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Baboon Bro
Whaddaya mean?? Ya say ya dont play yer cassette tapes no more?

Nope - I gave up learning korean.

Do you really gave up learning Korean? You probably know my brother then. He is an expert in Korean language, studied in Bonn. He was twice in Seoul for the Goethe Institut(e) and for that liberal university that American monks have founded.
And one day I got the official "Still Life" as a cassette as a birthday present. That's my treasure because ... no, it bears no bonus tracks as you might expect from Asian records ... because it is censored in a very weird way. It even got some lines from the censorship ministery!
Well, it passed but lost a bit: No "Let's Spend The Night Together" (pure porn, isn't it?), no Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner (pure political porn, isn't it?) and out of Shattered each line containing the word (well, t h a t three-letter-word that's quite often repeated in that song) is cut out...

SwayStone, that's called a Reel-to-reel recorder.

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JJHMick
Do you really gave up learning Korean?

No sorry, I was only kiddin'.
there's no language odd enough to not find someone who is learning it though.

Those censored versions you have are probably quite rare to the US and the european folks.

I have 4 boxes of cassettes of many artists, the Stones a bag full. I'm play them time to time. Have put some rare ones on cassette. I didn't know I had so much, in the 90's I traded lots. Some I would trade off but don't know if anyone wants any.

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skipstone
SwayStone, that's called a Reel-to-reel recorder.

Many many thanks for your free English lesson .
I am astonished ( = very surprised ) by the sound of my father's Reel -To reel !
Somes Stones concerts on it ,and a "The Police " live ;really great sound !*
I have only one hundred K7 "100 K7 ".
They are in my cupboard



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .



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people have done some cool stuff with their old cassettes. very creative!

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JJHMick
Do you really gave up learning Korean?

No sorry, I was only kiddin'.
there's no language odd enough to not find someone who is learning it though.

Those censored versions you have are probably quite rare to the US and the european folks.

Yes, and if you play the whole tape on a car trip (for example) and it's finished you really wonder that you missed something. It's simply too short. And, of course, Shattered, is a bit strange to sing the lyrics to as they are cutting or jumping text lines or lines don't rhyme to each other...
Btw, the odd language: You sure get along in Korea if you send your child to the Kindergarden and find out that they don't wear a backpack as your child in Germany but a ruckusacku - at least, it sounds like that...

There seems to be an increase in sales :

[news.sky.com]

I know it's an ancient thread, but this fits...something new to do with those old cassettes.



Sony Crams 3,700 Blu-Rays' Worth of Storage in a Single Cassette Tape

Stupid hipster 80s fetishism notwithstanding, cassette tapes don't get much love. That's a shame, because magnetic tape is still a surprisingly robust way to back up data. Especially now: Sony just unveiled tape that holds a whopping 148 GB per square inch, meaning a cassette could hold 185 TB of data. Prepare for the mixtape to end all mixtapes.

Sony's technique, which will be discussed at today's International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, uses a vacuum-forming technique called sputter deposition to create a layer of magnetic crystals by shooting argon ions at a polymer film substrate. The crystals, measuring just 7.7 nanometers on average, pack together more densely than any other previous method.

The result: three Blu-Rays' worth of data can fit on one square inch of Sony's new wonder-tape.

Naturally, that kind of memory isn't going to go in the cassette deck on your ancient boom box any time soon. Sony developed the technology for long-term, industrial-sized data backup, a field where tape's slow write times and the time it takes to scroll through yards and yards of tape to find a single file aren't crippling problems.

Sony wouldn't say when or if this new type of tape is expected to hit the market, but when it does, it'll be a victory for the old school. [ExtremeTech]


[gizmodo.com]