she asked,and handed me a worn-out cassette tape.I knew exactly what was recorded on it:My Redeemer(救世主).I heard the song played at least a thousand times while growing up.After so many years,the cassette tape was too worn out to be used.I promised her I would find a replacement...
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Gosh this probably wouldn’t work any more now. Who in the world still uses cassette tapes… more importantly, who in the world still has equipment to play them? She recorded 7 tapes, 13 tales. Each targeting a person that has pushed her a little further, and each telling a story along...
In 1999, still riding a multi-decade wave of growth, the global recorded music industry logged a record $25.2 billion in revenues, all of it via sales of physical media like vinyl records, cassette tapes, and above all, compact discs. (For perspective, Starbucks had just under $25 billion...
To quote ABBA and bring this whole thing full circle, “Thank You For the Music” compact disc. Gone but never forgotten. And speaking of time. If you’ve got a treasure trove of oldcassette tapestodigital formats.
The most common formats were CDs, cassette tapes and vinyl records. In those days, record companies were making a killing from record sales, so the artists were free to keep all the money they made from other sources, such as touring, merchandise, etc. ...
One of the first digital formats was the Audio CD optical disk (PCM modulation / PCM format). It was a source that delivered low distortion and noise levels compared with analog equivalents such as cassette tapes and vinyl records. A whole generation since then has grown up with a much high...
When I first started listening to music, one would pop in a cassette or drop a needle on a record and listen to an album a “side” at a time. Back then, to have customized playlists, one had to wire some equipment together through a receiver, then make “mix tapes.” Then came CD...
On the last chorus of "Birds of a Feather," Eilish reached for a note she wasn't sure she could hit. Her vocal bravery came after she started taking singing lessons. I asked, "Have you found some part of yourself you didn't even know was there?" ...
First it was cassette tapes (eight-track tape cartridges had pretty much withered away), then CDs slowly started to proliferate. (Digital audio tapes, DATs, came and went practically unnoticed.) Vinyl is having its last laugh, though, rising from the dead on wings of audiophile preferences. ...