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Walkman, at 30, a mystery to teen.
News Type: Other — Seeded on Wed Jul 1, 2009 3:09 PM EDT
Article Source: The San Francisco Chronicleadvertisement
"My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day," Campbell wrote. "He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realized he meant that big. It was the size of a small book."
Even when he discovered the cassette had more music on the other side (it took him three days), Campbell was still disappointed it could only hold a small fraction of what an iPod can.
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{"commentId":7970230,"authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
It's sad that teenagers don't have any respect for the "ipods" of older generations. What was this kid expecting? A cassette that could hold 5,000 songs like his ipod?
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- 4 votes
#1 - Wed Jul 1, 2009 3:11 PM EDT{"commentId":7992169,"authorDomain":"DanielCarrino"}
Nice seed, it brings back a lot of good memories for me, so thanks.
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{"commentId":7998259,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}
Even when he discovered the cassette had more music on the other side (it took him three days),
How long until he discovers that it sounds a lot better than an ipod?
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8002623,"authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
How long until he discovers that it sounds a lot better than an ipod?
you know, thats an interesting point. i have noticed that my ipod doesnt sound so great, and that the songs i imported from my old CDs dont sound as good as the ones i bought directly from i-tunes. i am sure this is deliberate, to get you to re-buy everything. the earbuds are also not as high tech as they should be. this is all considering the fact that i paid $500 for the i-pod, and an extra $50 for supposedly "better" earbuds than what came with it, because those wore out after less than a year. WTF?
{"commentId":8002623,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":8002726,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}
MP3 is a compressed format. Lots of loss.
{"commentId":8002726,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"paperdragon"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":8002870,"authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
but why would downloaded songs sound better than imported ones? isnt it the same format? i havent heard a tape or vinyl for a long time. i dont even have any anymore.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8003975,"authorDomain":"tcervo"}
but why would downloaded songs sound better than imported ones? isnt it the same format?
Depends on your ripping settings. For example, the default setting in iTunes when you rip a CD are pretty bad...When you buy a newer song on iTunes, they're encoded at a higher bitrate.
There are a couple things you can do to improve the end-result when you rip your CD's using iTunes:
* Download and install the LAME encoder for iTunes.
* Change your iTunes importing/ripping settings to use the LAME encoder instead of the standard built-in encoder. Also change the MP3 settings. There's endless debate about what's best, so you may want to experiment with different settings. For me, I found that 192kbps VBR (Variable Bit Rate) is the best tradeoff of file size and quality.
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":7976626,"authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
Even when he discovered the cassette had more music on the other side (it took him three days), Campbell was still disappointed it could only hold a small fraction of what an iPod can. "Did my dad ... really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?"
Ouch.
they said the kid was a teenager, but we werent told that he was also retarded. WTF? even when walkmans were all the rage, i knew what an 8-track was. i cannot believe he had never even seen a walkman before, and didnt know that cassette tapes had music on both sides. i blame his parents!
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- 10 votes
#2 - Wed Jul 1, 2009 8:36 PM EDT{"commentId":7977009,"authorDomain":"j-clarahan"}
Imagine what this kid would think of a full sized record? Let alone the finesse it took to play one particular song!
Remember trying to jog with playing a cassette? They had those nifty clips for your waste band and everything (that always pulled my shorts down and would cause too much bouncing and the cassette would screw up so I held mine in my hand). But hey, it was the first type of music playing technology that you could pick up and take with you! And to think, you could actually choose 10-15 songs that you wanted to listen to! Kids today are just spoiled rotten with their fancy techno gadgets. They have no idea how hard we all had it...walking to school--up hill both ways!
We must remember, though, they are shortchanged--they have to buy every single song they want. We were lucky, we just had to listen to the radio long enough for our favorites and we could tape them! All it cost us is the tape recorder and a blank tape. Well, and time of course. I still have those tapes and my walkman and can go back in time and listen to a little bit of Casey Casum at the beginning or end of a song any time I want :-)
Fun article Ashley!
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- 6 votes
#3 - Wed Jul 1, 2009 9:03 PM EDT{"commentId":7982266,"authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
Let alone the finesse it took to play one particular song!
you are right, they will *never* know what that was like, trying to get the needle into the groove just right....i remember when we got a record player that had a cassette-recorder attached, you had to press down "play" and "record" at the same time, then press "pause," then set up the record and put the needle down just right and take the "pause" button off...just to record a song from the album, onto the tape.
i used to make mixed tapes for all my friends, and "love interests" at the time LOL now they are called "playlists" and it takes about 2 minutes to make one. i used to spend an entire weekend getting a good mixed tape together.
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":7992038,"authorDomain":"DanielCarrino"}
Gosh, I loved making mixed tapes. To make a good one took a lot of thought and a fair amount of time. I have great memories of when I got my first walkman in 1984, sitting on the front porch swing listening to Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, and the Damn Yankees. Man, those were the days.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":7993251,"authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
i put aerosmith's "dream on" on almost every tape i ever made, and blue oyster cult's "dont fear the reaper." i had others of course but those made it into the mix almost every time.
{"commentId":7993251,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":7994426,"authorDomain":"DanielCarrino"}
Both excellent songs!
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":8198853,"authorDomain":"cookinmama"}
American top 40 my fave. I use a sansa mp3 player for the gym. But i still like listening to my old records and tapes.
I used to use a music service but now I use a free music service.
{"commentId":8198853,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"cookinmama"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":7977329,"authorDomain":"lkessler41"}
Oh my--I tell ya, kids are so spoiled.... When the walkman came out--I was psyched!! Then again, I was psyched about CD players, too--imagine, you didn't have to turn the darn CD around to play all the music at once. What a concept, right?
Now, you know, I will admit, I wouldn't know what to do with even a simple cell phone if I had one (which I don't). I just plain refuse to have people just one more way to annoy me.... :)
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- 4 votes
#4 - Wed Jul 1, 2009 9:23 PM EDT{"commentId":8070654,"authorDomain":"DarthVSchw"}
I hated when 8 Track tapes would cut out in the middle of a song to switch tracks...
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{"commentId":7981670,"authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
I'll admit. I'm only 21 and I've gone through my fair share of walkmen's and cd players and I do own an ipod.
It just amazes me that kids these days have no respect for the older generation. I mean, I knew what an 8 track was when I was little. My grandparents used to own an old jutebox that sat in the basementand played records. It doesn't take a genious to figure out that a cassete is the same demensions on both sides....so you could in fact turn the tape over.
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- 3 votes
#5 - Thu Jul 2, 2009 8:19 AM EDT{"commentId":8002731,"authorDomain":"lkessler41"}
Ashley: how refreshing!! I not only knew what an 8-track was, I was the proud owner of several pieces of music that came in such a format...
Now, show a modern kid an 8-track, and they might look at you like you're from Mars!
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":8049856,"authorDomain":"stone5150"}
I never owned an 8-track anything, I went from vinyl to cassette then eventually to CD / digital copies. But I have never been an early adopter of anything. I just got an LCD TV a few months ago.
I don't plan of ever paying for the R&D on a new technology, so I wait til they have it down well enough to sell it at a reasonable price.
I have never been much impressed with iPods. Sacrilegious I know, I am supposed to bow down to the iTrend and iKiss their iAsses because the white ear buds mark me as one of the 'In' people. Oddly enough I have consciously made an effort not to be. If you look the technology can be had for a fraction of the price, all they is lacking is the apple logo.
{"commentId":8049856,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"stone5150"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":8198882,"authorDomain":"cookinmama"}
its the apple scam make it and they will come.
{"commentId":8198882,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"cookinmama"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":7981950,"authorDomain":"ungerbn"}
Almost as embarrassing as when my son asked me what I was doing while walking around with a Victrola on my shoulder.
{"commentId":7981950,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"ungerbn"}
- 6 votes
#6 - Thu Jul 2, 2009 8:44 AM EDT{"commentId":7982223,"authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
LOL moving it, i hope.
{"commentId":7982223,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
- 7 votes
{"commentId":7984581,"authorDomain":"ungerbn"}
Truthfully, I have been eyeing an 8-track that my great grandmother has up in her attic :-)
{"commentId":7984581,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"ungerbn"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":7982605,"authorDomain":"pennytool"}
ahh wonders never cease,smiles I still have my mothers old stereo it has a turn table, radio, and an eight track player.
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- 4 votes
#7 - Thu Jul 2, 2009 9:26 AM EDT{"commentId":8053884,"authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
My stepdad just found his old record player in the basement of his mom's house. He cleaned it up and it works perfect. We've been going around buying records just to listen to magificent sound that comes from it.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":8070666,"authorDomain":"DarthVSchw"}
I need a vinyl player, got stacks of wax and nothing to play them.
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{"commentId":8071042,"authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
Try ebay or shop around at antique malls and flea markets. You can also get the newer ones at Sears and JcPenney and have them coverted to MP3 format to play on your ipod or turn them into cds.
My stepdad's in the process of converting all his music just in case something does happen to the cds.
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{"commentId":7991345,"authorDomain":"onedaylong"}
Somehow, I have a feeling that this particular teenager is one of the more idiotic of his species. I refuse to believe that teenagers in general can't figure out a cassette, because if that's true then I have no hope for the human race. Next thing I'll find out is that they can't figure out a vhs anymore either. It's not like the technology is even that old.
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- 3 votes
#8 - Thu Jul 2, 2009 3:42 PM EDT{"commentId":8053799,"authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
Speaking of VHS. I was selling a bunch of old VHS at a yard sale a couple weeks ago and this kid walks up and picks up a copy of "Sandlot" and goes "What the heck is this? Is there really a movie on here?". I told the kid to scram. If he didn't know what a VHS was then he didn't deserve to touch it.
By the way. I was selling my copy of Sandlot cause I had two. I like to keep the classics.
{"commentId":8053799,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":7994073,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
I miss my sportswalkman! And it wasn't that long ago, I remember using it (and constantly buying batteries for it) my first years in SF, 12-14 years ago. I had a portable CD player, but I hated needing to carry around CDs and it didn't have a radio.
I don't miss how much it weighed or how bulky it was, though.
The other high point of tech in my teen years was going to Grannie's, as she had a dual tape deck, which meant I could record from cassette to cassette, allowing for new song combos and mixes.
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- 2 votes
#9 - Thu Jul 2, 2009 5:13 PM EDT{"commentId":8002839,"authorDomain":"factcheckme"}
i took a bus from san fran to indianapolis once in college, and its when everyone had discmans. i listened to some great music on that trip! but the weird thing to me at the time was that i was used to traveling that way (by train or bus) and in the "olden days" of the early 90s (haha) people actually talked to each other on busses etc and you made some friends that way. not anymore! and now its probably even worse with ipods, although theres a problem with charging them whereas you could just pop some new batteries into the discman when they died on a long trip.
i am just lolling at the thought of carrying along all those CDs in that stupid carrying case. it was huge, about the size of a phone book.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8053859,"authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
I remember sitting on the bus in middle school with my cd player and my cd case with like 2 packs of batteries. My two batteries would last me about a week.
I don't miss it at all. I hate lugging around cds and batteries and those chunky earphones. I think I would die without my ipod. It's so small and the battery life may not last a week but I can live with it.
{"commentId":8053859,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":8071420,"authorDomain":"stone5150"}
I have an MP3 player, not an iPod but the sound quality is as good or better and the battery last about a month, plus I paid about 2/3rds less.
{"commentId":8071420,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"stone5150"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":8072468,"authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
Most of the other MP3 players are better but I like my ipod touch because I can get online at any wi-fi hotspot and surf the web and all kinds of other things with it.
{"commentId":8072468,"threadId":"617044","contentId":"2988213","authorDomain":"drama-queen88"}
- 1 vote
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