Cassette

How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats

Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we’ve been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we’ve done it to date: For full resolution, click here. It wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century that mass-produced recordings were available to…

Tech News John Herrman Apr 17

My First Album

Who the hell is Richard Marx? Being another baby of Gizmodo, I’m sure I’ve still got a lot to learn about music, especially since I’m one of those kids who’s completely brainwashed by The Mouse. https://gizmodo.com/my-first-album-5213777 For those of you who know me, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to know the very first CD…

Tech News Andi Wang Apr 16

Cassette To Digital USB Gadget Preserves Milli Vanilli For Eternity

If, for some strange reason, you still have tons of cassettes lying around, this USB gadget from Japanese company Novac will help you convert them to MP3, WMA or WAV files. The MV-CM001U can store MP3 and WMA files in 32/64/128/192/320kbps sizes, it features a 1.5W speaker and it has a surprisingly attractive wooden design.…

Tech News Sean Fallon Apr 16

My First Album

Unlike Mark’s first album, my first album unfortunately contained no ninjas. Unless Richard Marx was a ninja. https://gizmodo.com/my-first-album-5213281 For me it was Richard Marx’s Repeat Offender on cassette, which I ordered from one of those music catalog deals. It was one of the few cassettes I actually bought, since even back then, I used to…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 15

Portable Cross Fadin’ Cassette Will Make All Your Spontaneous DJ Dreams Come True

Once, while walking down the street, a man suddenly approached me screaming “QUICK! We need someone to DJ!” If only I had had this portable cross fader—who knows how differently my life would’ve turned out. The Urban DJ portable cross fader has been ultimate retro hipster designed into a cassette shape. It has three inputs…

Tech News Elaine Chow Mar 27

Retro Cassette MP3 Player Runs on Finger Power

Remember how annoying winding up a cassette with your finger used to be? I thought we were past all of that nonsense, but the designers behind the NVDRS MP3 cassette tape have other plans. In fact, they are taking the cassette concept to such extremes as to render the digital benefits nearly pointless. The disks…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 18

Audio Ripping Cassette Deck Lets You Record Analog to Digital, and Digital to…Analog?

Most analog-to-digital audio ripping devices hardly warrant mention these days. But the PlusDeck Ex’s ability to record MP3s to analog cassette is so odd, I can’t help but be amused. If you’re longing for the days of mixtapes burned dubbed to a gaudy looking Memorex cassette, this is for you. The USB port allows you…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 30

Stubborn, Old, Crotchety JVC Finally Ceases Standalone VCR Production

Formats never truly die, but their eras always have a few painful stages of decline. First, there’s the arrival of a promising new competitor, then its steady rise, which is invariably followed by a mourning period and the final purging of last-gen products from the market. The last stage of obsolescence for of the long-presumed-dead…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 28

Cabinet Built From 918 Tapes That Never Thought Things Would End Like This

It’s not easy being a tape nowadays. Your only friends are all in jail, everyone inexplicably likes old-farty vinyl more than you, and now people are even using you to build furniture. This is not how it was supposed to go. In your heyday, people rocked out to your not-so-dulcet tones, unwitting grunge parents produced…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 20

Cassette Watch: Best Invention Since the Mix Tape

WARNING: by reading about the Cassette-Face Watch, you too could lose $70 (£35) into the void of online shopping. Constructed of stainless steel and featuring dual dials (one for hours, one for minutes), its faux hand-sketched labels make this accessory transcend normal watch for a moniker more like “really great watch that looks like a…

Gadgets Mark Wilson May 28

Standalone Cassette SD MP3 Player Is Retro-Useful

The Standalone Cassette MP3 player would have been incredibly useful back in the early ’00s, before we hooked up iPods and iPhones directly to our car (via cassette adapter), but it’s still pretty neat now. The body looks and behaves like a standard cassette tape, but has a slot on the bottom for an SD…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 21

Classic Ad Watch: Panasonic’s 1985 Portable Audio Lineup

What does an ad with a cassette player, boombox, laserdisc, and FM radio headphones get you? Something that’s hilarious to watch 22 years later. Panasonic’s motto was “Just Slightly Ahead of Our Time”, which makes a lot of sense. These things totally look like they’re from 1987. Classic Commercials: Panasonic [TecheBlog]

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 13

Cassette Generator: Your Name On Tape

You remember cassettes, don’t you? Go to this website and make it look like you have your own album, old skool. Tell your friends you’re a Nashville Cat, been playin’ since they’s babies. OK, commenters, your turn: how would you label a cassette featuring your intrepid Giz editors? Cassette Generator [SaysIt, via Boing Boing]

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 28

How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats

My First Album

Cassette To Digital USB Gadget Preserves Milli Vanilli For Eternity

My First Album

Portable Cross Fadin’ Cassette Will Make All Your Spontaneous DJ Dreams Come True

Retro Cassette MP3 Player Runs on Finger Power

Audio Ripping Cassette Deck Lets You Record Analog to Digital, and Digital to…Analog?

Stubborn, Old, Crotchety JVC Finally Ceases Standalone VCR Production

Cabinet Built From 918 Tapes That Never Thought Things Would End Like This

Cassette Watch: Best Invention Since the Mix Tape

Standalone Cassette SD MP3 Player Is Retro-Useful

Classic Ad Watch: Panasonic’s 1985 Portable Audio Lineup

Cassette Generator: Your Name On Tape

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