Comment on Damn kids, get off my lawn!

• MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One big problem I’ve always had with cassettes is due to the nature of how cassettes work, the sound literally slows down as the battery in the player gets lower.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But with pristine audio in our pockets I do find a charm to it.

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    • MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can appreciate that.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really should know how they figured out how to do this what with going to school for audio engineering when cassettes were still around, but at some point, they figured out a way to get walkmen to just stop working when the battery was too low instead of slowing down.

    But yeah, because of that, occasionally music at the right speed sounds too fast for me, especially classical music.

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    • EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t say I actually know how they made it work, because I’ve never designed or worked on one, but circuitry that cuts out when the voltage drops is pretty common. More of an electrical/electronics engineering type of thing than audio engineering.

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But they’re cheap to produce and a good way to get sobering small when supporting an artist.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are they really any cheaper to produce these days than CDs? I would think, now being a niche market, they would be more expensive. Supporting a local artist is always good, obviously.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not necessarily, but they are more novel and I’m more likely to buy one.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That does make sense.

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  • EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would be shocked to learn it’s cheaper than producing a CD. I can almost guarantee that it’s simply some kind of kitschy thing.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cheaper than records, which sell more than CDs.

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