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Post by ayatollah on Mar 14, 2023 4:01:59 GMT
In the distant and hazy year of 2004 my first car had a cassette player and I had a Sony Discman with an adapter.
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 14, 2023 9:31:00 GMT
Yeah, the early ones in the 80's and 90's were pretty terrible and skipped all over the place, still got one somewhere.
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Post by Hnefahogg on Mar 15, 2023 14:41:00 GMT
I recently watched an old TV episode about piracy. They said that in the old days before there were CD burners, no one considered cassette recording piracy because the quality deteriorated compared to the original. That didn't make much sense considering that albums were sold on tape as well.
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 16, 2023 11:03:18 GMT
I recently watched an old TV episode about piracy. They said that in the old days before there were CD burners, no one considered cassette recording piracy because the quality deteriorated compared to the original. That didn't make much sense considering that albums were sold on tape as well. It certainly was, hence the "home taping is killing music" skull and crossbones that was all over records back then for a period. There wasn't too much loss anyway as most copies were only first generation ones for friends rather than for profit. You did see "clones" on sale in markets though, with full pirated artwork. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 16, 2023 11:06:52 GMT
Back when CD first came out and I was working in the arse end of the music business we did a presentation to get a corporate customer to switch from cassette to CD. My boss at the time banged on about the near indestructability of CDs by bringing one down on the table edge, unfortunately it immediately smashed into loads of little pieces.
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Post by Hnefahogg on Mar 16, 2023 18:44:10 GMT
I recently watched an old TV episode about piracy. They said that in the old days before there were CD burners, no one considered cassette recording piracy because the quality deteriorated compared to the original. That didn't make much sense considering that albums were sold on tape as well. It certainly was, hence the "home taping is killing music" skull and crossbones that was all over records back then for a period. There wasn't too much loss anyway as most copies were only first generation ones for friends rather than for profit. You did see "clones" on sale in markets though, with full pirated artwork. Yeah, they brought up that piracy was nothing new and referred to that in the old days people used to copy from vinyl or radio to cassette. Then they tried a counterargument that now with CD burners it was much more serious as people could replicate the quality of the original, and therefore they would lack the motivation to buy the authentic. Whereas in the old days you'd get better quality if you bought the vinyl. Then a philosopher said the real reason people bought less music was not because of piracy but because the musical creativity had been on the decline. Back when CD first came out and I was working in the arse end of the music business we did a presentation to get a corporate customer to switch from cassette to CD. My boss at the time banged on about the near indestructability of CDs by bringing one down on the table edge, unfortunately it immediately smashed into loads of little pieces. CDs in the 1980's were considered a yuppie thing. A guy who worked in a record store back then said they'd joke that imagine putting Metallica on CD. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2023 22:05:03 GMT
I recently watched an old TV episode about piracy. They said that in the old days before there were CD burners, no one considered cassette recording piracy because the quality deteriorated compared to the original. That didn't make much sense considering that albums were sold on tape as well. It was seen as a big enough issue in the UK for the industry to fight back….  |
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Post by Hnefahogg on Mar 17, 2023 8:11:18 GMT
I recently watched an old TV episode about piracy. They said that in the old days before there were CD burners, no one considered cassette recording piracy because the quality deteriorated compared to the original. That didn't make much sense considering that albums were sold on tape as well. It was seen as a big enough issue in the UK for the industry to fight back…. My dad would tape from the radio himself and attack me for having a CD burner. I thought that was funny. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 17, 2023 9:35:01 GMT
It certainly was, hence the "home taping is killing music" skull and crossbones that was all over records back then for a period. There wasn't too much loss anyway as most copies were only first generation ones for friends rather than for profit. You did see "clones" on sale in markets though, with full pirated artwork. Yeah, they brought up that piracy was nothing new and referred to that in the old days people used to copy from vinyl or radio to cassette. Then they tried a counterargument that now with CD burners it was much more serious as people could replicate the quality of the original, and therefore they would lack the motivation to buy the authentic. Whereas in the old days you'd get better quality if you bought the vinyl. Then a philosopher said the real reason people bought less music was not because of piracy but because the musical creativity had been on the decline. Back when CD first came out and I was working in the arse end of the music business we did a presentation to get a corporate customer to switch from cassette to CD. My boss at the time banged on about the near indestructability of CDs by bringing one down on the table edge, unfortunately it immediately smashed into loads of little pieces. CDs in the 1980's were considered a yuppie thing. A guy who worked in a record store back then said they'd joke that imagine putting Metallica on CD. "in the old days people used to copy from vinyl or radio to cassette." Then we'd cycle off to work on our penny farthings bloody cheek. |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Mar 18, 2023 12:39:11 GMT
I recently watched an old TV episode about piracy. They said that in the old days before there were CD burners, no one considered cassette recording piracy because the quality deteriorated compared to the original. That didn't make much sense considering that albums were sold on tape as well. Piracy of cassettes was discussed but because it was so easy to copy a tape and there was no practical antipiracy method, it was ignored. I think music publishers were given a bite of the blank cassette price because piracy was the only reason to buy good quality blank cassettes. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2023 16:28:30 GMT
I still have a CD player.
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Post by gadreel on Apr 5, 2023 23:28:14 GMT
I just bought a new car and one of my requirements was that it had a CD player
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Post by ellynmacgregor2024 on Apr 6, 2023 4:05:51 GMT
Somewhere in storage, I have a Crosley that will not only play vinyl LPs, but will also transcribe their contents onto CDRs. I wish I knew where to find that machine, because strangely enough, I still own a few old LPs...of course, I have no idea where those might be either, so I guess it's all academic. :|
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Post by WarrenPeace on Apr 6, 2023 15:35:04 GMT
I recently watched an old TV episode about piracy. They said that in the old days before there were CD burners, no one considered cassette recording piracy because the quality deteriorated compared to the original. That didn't make much sense considering that albums were sold on tape as well. Yeah, and you could get a double cassette player on most stereos to make copies of the tape or off the album. Not like they set it up so you could copy your CDs or made it so easy for it. |
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Post by WarrenPeace on Apr 6, 2023 15:39:20 GMT
I do not stream or get music digitally or however you young uns are doing it these days.
I have a boom box on all three levels of the house for playing CDs when I am in certain rooms and have a CD walkman for bike rides.
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