Topic: What are you thinking right now?

[smokester]

Football is always worth watching even if it's bad footie:

Classic.

No.  I flew by the seat of my pants.

That's just mind boggling.

[smokester]

David beat Goliath in the 90th minute.  Priceless!!

[goldshirt*9]

he he well done wigan

[smokester]

he he well done wigan

Word is that Mancini is gone and Pellegrini is in. 

About time too in my opinion.

[bubu]

Word is that Mancini is gone and Pellegrini is in. 

About time too in my opinion.

It seems it is not true or so I read

[SACPOP]

I have a ton of cassettes that I accumulated in my teens that just been sitting in a box for decades. I hold on to them because I may want to play them eventually (actually playing cassettes instead of digital files), but I am afraid to play them because they have been sitting so long and they have a high probability of breaking/getting eaten. So basically it's a Catch-22. I want to keep them so I can play them later, but with each passing minute the probablility of them being destroyed increases, so I don't play them.

[smokester]

I have a ton of cassettes that I accumulated in my teens that just been sitting in a box for decades. I hold on to them because I may want to play them eventually (actually playing cassettes instead of digital files), but I am afraid to play them because they have been sitting so long and they have a high probability of breaking/getting eaten. So basically it's a Catch-22. I want to keep them so I can play them later, but with each passing minute the probablility of them being destroyed increases, so I don't play them.

My son plays my early DJ mixtapes from more years ago than the average man can count.  They play just fine although a little muggy in sound quality.

[xtopave]

I have a ton of cassettes that I accumulated in my teens that just been sitting in a box for decades. I hold on to them because I may want to play them eventually (actually playing cassettes instead of digital files), but I am afraid to play them because they have been sitting so long and they have a high probability of breaking/getting eaten. So basically it's a Catch-22. I want to keep them so I can play them later, but with each passing minute the probablility of them being destroyed increases, so I don't play them.

I'm keeping them too!! And whenever I came across them I think... maybe later.

My son plays my early DJ mixtapes from more years ago than the average man can count.  They play just fine although a little muggy in sound quality.

About 300 yrs ago my husband used to be a DJ for a short while. Actually his first gift to me was a mixtape that of course I still keep. I remember Father & Son by Cat Stevens was in it. Man, I loved that song the second I've heard it.

[SACPOP]

I have already reacquired lossless versions of all the music I had and I listen to the songs whenever I want, but I have some strange attachment to those stupid cassettes.
Fortunately, I'm pretty sure that once I start to play the first tape I'll realize the tapes are completely unnecessary, end up tossing the whole box in the trash, and I won't have to think about them anymore.

[tarascon]

I have a ton of cassettes that I accumulated in my teens that just been sitting in a box for decades. I hold on to them because I may want to play them eventually (actually playing cassettes instead of digital files), but I am afraid to play them because they have been sitting so long and they have a high probability of breaking/getting eaten. So basically it's a Catch-22. I want to keep them so I can play them later, but with each passing minute the probablility of them being destroyed increases, so I don't play them.

I made hundreds of mixed tapes back in the day. Now they're just metaphors.
I know how you feel; the tapes are probably so brittle that they'll be destroyed upon playing. Mission Impossible. I bought a device about 10 years ago which will convert cassettes to CD format but, atm, I can't recall what the thing is called, who made it, nor even where it is. The issue at the time was that a 90+ minute tape could only be converted to a shorter timed CD and I couldn't edit.

[xtopave]

I bought a device about 10 years ago which will convert cassettes to CD format

And why would you want to do that?! Naaaahhh.

[6pairsofshoes]

iTunes easily makes playlists.  You can burn them to cd if you feel so inclined, or use a disc burning program to effect the same function.

The sound quality of the digital recordings is so far superior to magnetic tape, that, other than pure nostalgia, I don't see a reason for holding onto cassettes.  I still have a handful of them, but really, I should replace them.  The public library used to take donations of them, but now I just put them on Craigslist for free, and I never have trouble finding people who want them.  It's amazing how many people there are who have amassed huge cassette collections from these giveaways. 

[smokester]

About 300 yrs ago my husband used to be a DJ for a short while. Actually his first gift to me was a mixtape that of course I still keep. I remember Father & Son by Cat Stevens was in it. Man, I loved that song the second I've heard it.

I was/am (I don't suppose you ever lose it) a turntablist and I find it strange that listening to my old mixtapes, I can remember like it was yesterday, every mix, scratch, fade etc, throughout a 2 hour session.

[townie2]

i used to have Cat Stevens Greatest Hits on vinyl, now have it on cd, "found" the music on the net. youtube has some good live songs performed by him, you could also rip the audio from them.

[smokester]

I'm wondering why I cannot buy one of these things: