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- dynacrylic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+181Ah, the cassette tape- when music piracy consisted of high speed dubbing
- sid007i, on 10/10/2007, -3/+130Site down. It's being restored from a tape backup as we speak
- HBNDonut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+116Hmm, the memories. Holding down fastforward and play at the same time never ceased to amuse me.
- arcooke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+76Ah, the good ol' days.
- 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -4/+56C30, C60, C90, Go!!
- z3021017, on 10/10/2007, -0/+45They're missing the ROME MP3 player. It was a MP3 player shaped like a cassette tape that could also be placed inside a tape player to play the MP3s stored within:
http://www.howard.co.kr/computer/mp3/rome.htm - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+48sony walkman FTW!
- loopyloopy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33remember when TDK meant the height of quality...?
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33Maybe this is a dumb idea but it's right on topic so I guess I'll give it a go.
A few weeks ago I was looking through my 100+ old techno rave mixtapes and kind of lamenting the fact that only I could enjoy them. Thus, I hooked up my stereo to my PC and have started recording them to MP3. I set up a WordPress server, redesigned it a bit into a content management system, and have been hosting mixtapes at a rate of about one per week. (but I'm taking a 2-week break for my honeymoon!)
My site has no logins, shows no ads, and accepts no donations. Everything is absolutely free and I encourage everyone who enjoys techno music to download, enjoy, and share. I just hope Digg doesn't exploderize my already generous monthly bandwidth allotment.
http://mixtapes.demodulated.com/
A quote from my site:
"What is a mixtape? It’s an hour or so of a person’s life recorded for posterity. This single hour is multiplied by each copy of the tape, and is multiplied again each time someone listens to it. We listen to this compilation while we live our lives and it becomes an essential part of our life’s soundtrack. I can hardly imagine an hour’s effort being more significant than that!" - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30I don't care if you hate Sony or not...those were the ***** back in the day. I remember jamming Beat It and Billie Jean before going to school every morning
- qwertylicious, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31"Sony" and "FTW" in the same sentence on Digg, and it's not getting buried?
IT'S A MIRACLE! - iagn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30http://duggmirror.com/design/Cassette_Tape_Culture_PICS/
- evilunleashed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27I remember cassettes, that's what I used to feed to my car in the 80's. It ate those things like Kobayashi eats hot dogs.
- MrSunshine, on 10/10/2007, -2/+28Go away. We don't want blasphemy here >:(
- mightycbu, on 10/10/2007, -13/+39yeah! the 'good' old days were you had to skip trough the entire tape to find the song you were looking for or the tape that convienently got stuck and you had to screw to whole damn player open to get it out, don't even get me started about the days before speed-dubbing or auto-reverse. i used to copy tapes on single decks via the built-in mic, so in the background you could hear people talking/yelling, the telephone ringing and cars honking in the street. yes, let's bring back them 'good old days' (sarcasm)
- nottanner, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20I'd totally wear that belt buckle. If I were a belt buckle wearing kind of guy, that is.
- hasansexy, on 10/10/2007, -8/+22Dugg down because you needed to point out that you get the reference.
- shampoovta, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14My grand pa ( A ham radio guy) showed me how to open up the cassette and scotch tape more audio tape on to make the play time longer. I had no idea back then that switching to CD would lead to DRM.
PS: They told us back then that CD's would never scratch and would last forever. That is how they sold that turd to us.
- PaulOwen, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14It's not that you've misspelled it, its just that writing "duggmirror" is about as helpful as me answering every question I hear by saying "google".
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12ORLY? then who invented WALKMAN?! :)
- mightycbu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13what about the C20, which most people used for their commedore 64 tapedecks. PS: don't forget to cut the leadtape off ;)
- cryptocom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10ah, cassette tapes. two 'novel' things I remember from those days:
1. loading cassette tapes into my Commodore VIC-20's cassette tape recorder/player, and storing about 8 hours of typing BASIC code so I could play the equivalent of Centipede...but with cheesier graphics.
2. loading cassette tapes of Cypress Hill into my Camaro's cassette deck, and playing them while pushing down on the tape...which lowered the bass hits in the songs...which caused my 500watt Alpine amp to emit thunderous pleasure from the 15" Pyle woofers in the back...
:) - gossipninja, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12yeah i used to listen to downward spiral on my walkman doing my paper route. It was great, after closer, i hit the side switch button and it was right at the beginning of hurt. some days i would just flip between those 2 tracks. Odd cuz now if i dont have a bajillion songs i feel cheated, how times have changed.
- blogDot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10sweet!!!!
- uselessexpert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I'm diggin' the belt buckle!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9EXACTLY. But, as usual, the ***** in the recording industry and Congress used the lie of "perfect digital copies = piracy" to destroy DAT's chances as a consumer format. Everybody with a brain knew that most "piracy" was taking place in dorm rooms on double-cassette boom boxes.
Even today the lie is shown up for what it is: With high-speed connections abounding, are people swapping uncompressed wave files on peer-to-peer? Nope. They're swapping MP3s, not "perfect digital copies." - Sparkster185, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Simply replace "http://digg.com" with "http://duggmirror.com" in your browser. You'll see if duggmirror caught it. It also shows URLs to would be Coral, google and Wayback caches.
- spooniep, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10mix tape culture isn't dead....
it's just gone high tech:
http://technabob.com/blog/2007/08/12/the-mix-tape-goes-usb/ - DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Even if you had spelled it correctly, it still wouldn't have worked because you left out the http part.
- melissawm, on 10/10/2007, -12/+20hey, it's still better than DRM...
- TexanPsycho, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I've got a VHS tape still that says Hi-Resolution. Tried it on a 32incher, it looks awful.
- rjam710, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9It's "For The Win" *****.
- Rayor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Oh *****! It's an angry marine!
- humperdeath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Ahhhh,yes, I love the smell of melting plastic cassette cases coming from the dashboard of my car. MMMMmmmm!
- caddyalan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Since I was extremely fearful about MP3s, I was using audio cassettes until 2003.
- digitul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7but youre suppsoed to pretend those days were great so you can be nostalgic and old school!
- zeroMPHfallover, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7This made me realize that I've been a pirate most of my life.
- TnTBass, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Dugg down because you needed to point out you dugg him down for getting the reference.
- frsrblch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I was born too late to catch the era of the mixtape, but still, the best birthday present I've ever recieved was a mixtape of the Offspring from a friend of mine. This wasn't long before the whole Napster debacle, and suddenly sharing music became wrong.
I wonder if I still have that tape here somewhere... - rarson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Cassettes did have DRM, those little plastic tabs you broke off so that you could "never" record ever again! Of course, 3M came to the rescue with Scotch tape, and the musical landscape was forever altered.
- 60effects, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I remember listening to the radio with mixtape ready to record. Of course, I missed the first 2 sec of all my favorite songs, but that was alright.
- msc20, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7cassette transformers...i loved those!!! what a great blast from the past
- griz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Or countless hours listening to Casey Kasam on American top 40 waiting for your favorites to come up so you can compile your latest mix tape.
Trying like heck to not pick up the intro and then clipping the song the best you could at the end. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You better take my donation you mother *****
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yeah, but when you realize it wasn't a good idea to make 500 copies of your garage band's crappy album, you can record over the remaining 498 unsold tapes for subsequent releases.
- proton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5There are actually still a lot of DIY artists that use cassettes as a release format. It's cheap and has a novelty value.
- DoMifer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I thought it was only fair use if you were copying songs that you legally bought. So if you were making a tape for someone else, or copying someone else's tape, it was illegal.
- elnerdo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Even if you had gotten it correctly, 'duggmirror.com' isn't a link, and therefore it is useless.
- cheersrazer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I'm attempting to bring the ethic of mixtapes back (modernized a bit). http://www.playpause.org.
- lolwutpear, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5and at 32 MB, it can hold almost as much as a single cassette, too!
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