r/cassette

August 19 1983. I am from Ohio, and I have a Canada press vinyl

I’m working on a cassette recorder. Would you care to guess what this is out of? It runs on 6v and I’m not certain of the age. It puts most other mechanisms to absolute shame!

I listened to about 2 tapes before the player started slowing down. The video shows the current speed. I bought it broken and fixed it up, however it is a new hobby to me. Any advice, tips and/or tricks, or links to resources? Thanks all!

Some of my Madonna cassettes. I still play them. I have a decent Kenwood Cassette Deck.

Some certified bangers for the collection. The Dr. Seuss has gotten heavy play already. Great condition on it. The Bahamas tape was the one I was most excited for. It’s of course all fire. The jazz tape is way more fun than I expected. Buncha assholes on the last one.

Church rummage sales are often picked up in bulk by thrift chains…and then either marked way up or sent to the landfill.

And.

We have to be collectors, not hoarders, and it’s hard. 🫥

I've unscrewed everything on the motherboard but when i lift it up the wires are preventing me. This is my first player and i can't afford a new one, please don't just say to throw it away and buy a sony walkman.

I dated this guy in the early 2010's who would make me fucking mixtapes. I found one of them today.

I broke up with him because he was "too nice.” What a fucking idiot.

I wonder how he is now. I hope he's good tbh.

Edit: I found the other one + update https://www.reddit.com/r/cassetteculture/s/ARm0IblSkC

Price from $3 shipping from Indonesia

Last night’s jumping into cassette collecting actually starts in reverse with that boombox on images 8/9 of 10. I actually started collecting MiniDiscs 💽 first as a portable way to easily record podcasts, audiobooks and music with random access to not have to use my phone for that and as part of a video project for my channel. This is fascinating because of the brutal format war between Sony and Phillips’ competing Digital Compact Cassette in the 90s over succeeding compact cassette that sunk both, unlike the agreement between them in 1965 essentially making licensing of cassette players free for Sony and others that led to Phillips’ Compact Cassette becoming the worldwide standard.

IMO Phillips made a good point about backwards compatibility with existing cassettes. In a world where DCC had succeeded because the hardware didn’t cost way too much and there were more new prerecorded titles (a problem that also faced MiniDisc but for a different reason- record label fears of piracy due to how easy it was to burn them for a little over $600 in a time when CD recorders cost $10,000 made them reluctant to sign up) that might’ve been a huge selling point and DCC hardware might be less rare and expensive (hence why a lot of people including me are watching the one that seems to work, just without a remote).

Anyway, point is I eventually wanted a way to play MiniDiscs at home and after realizing HiFi decks from the UK were too expensive to ship, I found this Victory RC-MD33 boombox from Japan and was like, “Oh, neat, I can use the MiniDisc recording feature to back up the cassettes my parents have, maybe restore the sound with the Tape Refresh feature!”

That led me down a SECOND retro music rabbit hole, including the excellent Digging the Greats documentary Mixtape on the history of cassettes that is fascinating so far that really made me get this format and people’s passion for it in a way I hadn’t before. Turns out whether it’s cassettes or CDs or vinyl, we all just want the same thing- to take back our music listening from the streaming hellscape, just as cassettes’ original boom enabled homegrown rebellions against record label control and Chinese government censorship through dakou tapes. That eventually led to a lot more videos and then a trip down to my local record store where I met with the amazing, friendly, and knowledgeable folks at Byrdland Records near Union Market in Washington DC looking for tapes to listen to and backup on MiniDisc if I want to keep forever without degrading the tape.

Their buyer listened to me rattle off artists I’d discovered or fallen in love with on the MiniDisc I’d walked three miles with that night such as Astrud Gilberto, AJR, Cage the Elephant, Dominic Fike (I ended up passing my headphones to a person I randomly met in the store who was a fan of Dominic Fike) and The Weeknd and then recommended these eight tapes I ended up getting for much less than a single sealed MiniDisc LMAO. Even just in this small moment of human connection with other enthusiasts I learned so much, such as the existence of a local hip hop group called The Armors and the buyer’s recounting of their personal friendship with Watusi.

Then I figured the boombox wasn’t coming for a while, and in the meantime did I really want to just have these tapes sitting in their boxes unplayed? So I bought this nifty looking little portable player from Mercari. I hope I made the right choice but I’m so new to all this. However, the MiniDisc community and tape heads I met in person have been so kind and supportive to me so far, and since we are no longer format rivals but allies against monopolistic enshittification, I hope to find a home here too.

I got this for free earlier today. I bought some batteries to put in earlier and it did not work. I did didn’t even hear the motor running till just now.

I have no idea how to fix a cassette player. I’ll take any help I can get.

I've been looking for a cassette/CD boombox, and I'd really like to be able to make cassette mixtapes from my digital collection. This one can record cassettes, and it has an audio-in 3.5mm jack, but the manual doesn't specify whether the cassette can record from the jack. Do we think it's possible here? Is this a good idea? Ebay link for more pics.

What do you think guys ?

1992. What do you guys think ?

She told me it is fully refurbished by a specialised and it seems like it is in great condition. But i wanted a walkman with a good sound so one of the higher end ones. I reaally wanted a walkman thats among of the best. Could that be this? I just need a good cassette player and im good. Please help