Cassettes linger long after expected demise

Yep. I'm slowly moving our audio collection from tape to CD, but we have plenty of tapes still. Also plenty of VHS. While I try to use DVDs and CDs to add to our collection, there are some movies and books that are ONLY available on VHS and tape. So we have to keep the old equipment as well.

Of course, we're a school library. It takes decades for us to move to a new technology.

BTW I just bought a usb turntable so I can move my vinyl to CD. I have some albums that remain unavailable on CD.

 

Sorry, but an industry that loses 99.9984% of its sales volume in a 17 year period is dead in my book.

 

I prefer books on cassette over books on CD. On a tape player, I hit "stop"; when I hit "start" again I'm at where I left off. When I hit "start" again on a CD, If I'm not at the very beginning of the CD again, I'm at the beginning of the cut (and they usually don't have one-cut-per-chapter; it's usually done in a bizarre random way). Since the Prius does it logically, of course (ie, you start exactly where you left off), I should start listening to books on CD there.

 

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iPods have the capability to stop and restart an audiobook so that you are at the same place you left off. It may also be possible to do this for podcasts as well.

http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/features.html

Click on audiobooks on the left for the page which lists this feature.

 

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Aye, they do, but if you want to read a chapter, stop, then listen to some music, you're screwed (although you can fast-forward in tracks, so it's not TOO much of a pain). Although, as my wife found out the hard way, beware of listening to audiobooks while the iPod is in shuffle mode (she hit "play" and wound up in the last chapter of a mystery where they immediately say who did it).

 

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D'oh!

 

I miss the 8-tracks, boy you could easly fill a glove box with 4 of those babys..

 

Tapes LOL I don't eve use regular CD's anymore.

Its either MP3 CD or MP3 player for me. Even one car I had a DVD player that would play MP3 DVD's thats almost 1000 songs on 1 disc.

I just love new technology.

 

Until I had the DICE (and the iPod), I used the cassette player (with an adapter) in the Prius as an AUX input for my portable XM radio and/or my (non-iPod) MP3 player. It was good to have.