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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by BrandoElFollito on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:51AM (#39428297)
When you were born I was a teenager in France recording music from the radio to a tape praying for the announcer to be short and not to talk over the song. And that the song is not cut.

Such a tape was fantastic until you had to use a pen to rewind it.

Spotify at that time was science-fiction movie worthy.

This said, I listened to 20 sounds at that time and I have probably about 50 now that turn around :) The discovery functionality is great though

Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by mlrtime on Monday February 19, 2024 @08:22AM (#39429453)
Lots of us remember taping the radio... I have old recordings where I pretended to be the DJ announcing the next song. Oh man was I bad!
Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by miroljub on Monday February 19, 2024 @07:15AM (#39428929)
Hey, back in the time I was recording ZX Spectrum games broadcasted once a week over one of the radio stations.

Commodore 64 owners were jealous of us, since this couldn't work with C64 due to different tape recording system.

Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by sys_64738 on Monday February 19, 2024 @07:35AM (#39429081)
Maybe they were jealous but you still owned a Speccy!
Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by secondcoming on Monday February 19, 2024 @06:09AM (#39428455)
> praying for the announcer to be short and not to talk over the song

Hahaha, I did that in Ireland too. I'm pretty sure DJs deliberately talk over the song intros to make illegal recordings unviable.

Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by Aeolun on Monday February 19, 2024 @10:54AM (#39431122)
I remember using my 64mb MP3 player on repeat with 15 or so songs, but never really casette tapes.
Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by esafak on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:54AM (#39438433)
I turned into Shazam doing that; I could recognize any song I liked by the first note.