Don't you miss shoving a pencil through and respooling them though? No. Not that either
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People currently entering peak midlife crisis years now grew up with cassettes.
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Casettes were difficult to deal with.
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Ah, nothing like airy hissing instead of warm popping, or the slight emptiness of mp3s
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And the slow imperceptible stretching of a frequently played tape, until you suddenly realize the sound and is quite a long ways off from the original.
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I find vinyl impractical but it has proved to be indestructible, while tape gets chewed up and wears out and CDs explode while spinning eventually. It's going to be digital forever and these physical formats will only be a niche for the feeling of possession.
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I've never seen a CD explode while spinning, and I have well over a thousand of the things, a few dating back to the late 1980s, which was when I bought my first CD player. They still play.
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Plus the cover art and the detailed information on vinyl. Nothing like browsing the cover as you're listening to the music. When cassettes were popular I couldn't stand them. They were one of the needed sources if you wanted to listen in your car or to record.
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At least a whole new generation will understand how a pencil becomes a useful tool.
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