did it appear also to you that single music track lost a bit of worthyness of the early years since the tape deck was substituted by the overall existent mp3? every track is in competition to all the other uncountable available tracks out there. back then when the tape or vinyl only carried some few tracks every one at this medium was “worth” listening a bit more like it is now. That´s not my opinion at all but my feeling. But, i´d rather not be carrying around my old walkman due to size and weight. Currently, i wouldn´t even be able to put the present flavour of music to cassette tape. but now something happened. Instead of considering my mp3 player broke it now serves me as retro music machine.

how to turn a mid aged mp3 player into a retro music machine?

my creative zen player´s jog stopped working. just don´t know how but i can´t select anything since then. The only controls this object remains to work with are the volume and the play/pause button. Okay, there aren´t any more buttons left, so the thing is basically doing it´s job.

The issue now is, that there´s no possibility to skip tracks or folders – something i really eased into doing. Lucky me, i have found out to remove the most tracks from the stone and put only the ones i really could listen to in any situation.

This narrows down the options you can listen to. But this is exactly the point. I´m currently happy with this small world having the option in mind that all the music i own could be part in this small world. As for me, i don´t think i can convince many people to degrade their high tech pieces of a music player – i wouldn´t have either. But for now, i´m not going to replace that 1gb with something new. I have a bit of cassette tape feelings again.

Of course, this makes me one of these retro nerds, but here are some cool situations i remember regarding a music cassette

• quite often i learned to love a track because it was on the other side of my favourite track on the tape and i wanted to save batteries, so i switches sides everytime after the fav. track ended and were first forced to listen to the b-side and then got a bit accustomed to it.
• worst case was to go on a journey with a tape that was only recorded on side a.
• fast techno tracks are better to analyze when batteries are weak – good tracks work even when pitched down (this led to my love of the professional turntable)
• if the tape is worn out, you can hear this fancy effect when bot sides of a tape are played simultaneously
• you can fix a tape kind of good, if needed with scotch tape. try this with a cd

nevertheless, i love music, on any medium. just wanted to write about it – when did you had you had a music tape in hands at last?