Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases
by haywirez on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @07:09PM
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The main thing I miss is the tactile feedback of seeking through tracks and DJ sets with a walkman. If I held the buttons down only halfway pressed, the output would remain patched in to the headphones and I could hear the pitched up scrubbing sound. Also - when the batteries were dying, it would still play for about an hour, but progressively slower until it finally stopped.
I'm bringing this back to the web for sure.
Its hard because once a format is entrenched, unless its backward compatible with the previous media...
The market did try to make a better cassette in the late 1980s/early 1990s.. The "Digital Compact Cassette". they competed with Sony's "DAT" (Digital Audio Tape).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape
You are right though, at this point digital is king. Its weird thinking back to a time when music was physical, took up space and you had to think about what to play next (and have it with you). You were sort of stuck with the music you brought with.