Too bad cassettes are no longer in use

[GirlinContempt]

I was going to through my tape collection trying to find something for my Mum (for whatever reason, her new car only has a tape deck. Bizarre) and I realized how awesome my tapes are.
Aha, Misfits, Cypress Hill, Bad Religion, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Kim Wilde, Erasure, Iron Maiden....
I don't even know that I have a working tape player anymore :cry:

[SoxFan]

1. I'm sure my mom...

would love an Iron Maiden or a Misfits tape! :rofl:

[GirlinContempt]

3. I could send her one!

:P

[SoxFan]

5. My mom? Riiight!

Anything harder than Andrea Boccelli or Ronan Tynan is probably a bad move!

[zanne]

2. AMEN!

I always thought it was a dirty trick, swithching to CD's so we'd have to 1)Pay higher prices 2) buy new players 3) Be unable to copy from CD to CD 4)have to replace every tape with a CD 5) Not be able to jog with them.
I don't care if they sound better. They don't sound better by much and I think it's all a big racket. Soon, they'll find another kind of disc we'll have to use. Then, we'll have to go out and buy news discs and new players.......

[GirlinContempt]

4. I just went mostly from tape to digital

I never bought very many cds. Too much scratching :\

[leeroysphitz]

6. The days of disks and tapes etc... are over. For better or for worse.

The digital genie is out of the bottle.

[zanne]

10. Ten years ago I could have read that with no problem..

Since then, I've "adjusted" mine so much it no longer even resembles shorthand. I can only read mine.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Gah! They aren't??

Then I guess I've got a 22-pound Teac door stop in the living room. x(

[zingaro]

8. If you were to find one

there is software that will let you transfer those cassettes to CD. :)

http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/

[Breeze54]

9. Copy them to CD's and get her a portable CD player for the holidays!

:D

[zanne]

11. How would one go about doing that?

I'd love to do that! I didn't think it was possible.

[ghostsofgiants]

19. RCA output on the back of your stereo, 1/8" stereo jack input in your computer's sound card.

All you need is the right cable and some recording software.

[SteppingRazor]

17. Not really useful since CDs aren't really in use anymore either.

:P

[unpossibles]

12. I still have a tape deck in the car and at home

I'm half-Amish I guess.

[GirlinContempt]

14. It seems strange to me that a car that was new

after 2001 came with a tape deck.

[formerrepuke]

13. The tape deck in my last car caught fire from excessive use...

It was the only tape player I had left- and my only place to listen to all the old cassettes. Then all the friction (or something) proved too combustible, and the whole cassette player burst into flames last year while driving home. I doused it with my soft drink- and had to endure a year of driving 'silent' ..until the rest of the car finally wore out too. True story.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. I've been trying to find a movie for my wife but it's only on VHS

And I know of no good place to find vast amounts of movies on VHS anymore.

[Deep13]

16. News to me. I still use them.

most of my audio books are on tape.

[ghostsofgiants]

18. You need one of these...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/7a8d/