Does anyone use/need a (music) cassette deck these days?

[Rick Nebiolo]

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My home stereo cassette deck is in my closet. Last time I used it, I dug it out and hooked it up to my computer to convert a cassette based audio book to MP3.

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Turns out I do have some music on cassette (perhaps twenty tapes) that is otherwise unavailable or costly to replace. I might look into doing this if mostly just involves getting a couple cables. I do wonder how to break up the tracks although I would assume there's some freeware out there that would do this.

Unless I hear from a deserving* 2+2er I think the cassette deck will go to the Salvation Army after I make those conversions. Damn, I must have been one of the last people on Earth to spend $250 or more on a cassette deck in the last eight years.

~ Rick

* Being "deserving" isn't required. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[guids]

My dad still has an 8 track at his shop, but he has some sweet ones. Blues brothers, queen, clapton, so Ill pop one in once in awhile.

[Phat Mack]

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...we didn't have iTunes back then, kids...

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I think the real sick divide on 2+2 is those of us who actually owned and used eight track tapes!

I'd bet it amounts to less than 1% of registered users.

~ Rick

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Here's a quiz for the children on the forum. A few years ago, I owned a 1958 Buick, and drove it when I took out a girl in her early 20s. She looked at the dashboard, which was chrome and looked like a cross between a spaceship and an espresso machine, and then asked if should could turn on the radio.

I said fine, she turned it on, waited a few seconds, and turned it off. I asked her why she did that, and she said, "It's broken!"

Wtf? Why did she think it was broken?

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Wtf? Why did she think it was broken?

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Because it didn't in fact serve espresso.

~ Rick

[cow_phunk]

i still use a cassette adapter for my ipod. itrip is hell in the city and i haven't gotten around to getting a new stereo. don't need one really.

[nyc999]

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i still use a cassette adapter for my ipod. itrip is hell in the city and i haven't gotten around to getting a new stereo. don't need one really.

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Totally agree, I don't think I could do w/o a tape deck in my car. iTrip sucks anywhere near a city.

[private joker]

Hey Rick, I have a teletype machine and a dictaphone if you want to trade.

By the way, this post was written on:

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Hey Rick, I have a teletype machine and a dictaphone if you want to trade.

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I wouldn't use or need that; I'm on a get rid of things I don't use or need jihad.

A future OP will ask the forum how tacky it would be to donate almost new perfectly clean briefs now that I've suddenly switched to boxers *. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

~ Rick

PS * I now assume my next underwear will be in the Depends line of products.

[Golden_Rhino]

I use my tape deck to make mixed tapes for my car. That's right, my car has a tape deck.

[daryn]

my car has a tape deck. i used to use it a lot. i think i'll get back into it, some dick stole my ipod recently.