Oliver S. Bauer的动态

Dear #FridayNightListeners, These days, #music is available everywhere. You can find extensive music libraries, & playlists on various streaming services. Also for #FridayNightListeners there is such a playlist including all the songs that have been featured so far: https://spoti.fi/44cCkNp But what was it like in the past when you wanted to listen to your favourite music at a specific time? There were records, of course, but especially as a teenager you didn't have the money to buy every record, which, adjusted for #inflation, was more expensive back then than the monthly subscription to a streaming service is today! The lifesaver: the cassette! The younger ones may now be asking themselves: What is he talking about? The compact cassette is a sound carrier for the electromagnetic, analogue recording and playback of sound signals. Cassettes are played back and recorded using a cassette recorder as the playback device. The first cassettes for the public were introduced to the market in the 1960s by #Philips, but it took quite a while until the 1970s for a breakthrough to occur, the main reason being the licensing to Japanese companies. In 1979 #Sony launched its world-famous #Walkman, a portable cassette player, which became an important status symbol among young people and also a symbol of a new way of life: Music everywhere. Something that has continued to this day. Young people in particular were enthusiastic about the possibility of being able to record their favourite hits from the radio in a cheap and easy way, to which the music industry feared an existence-threatening drop in sales and reacted with campaigns such as "Home Taping Is Killing Music". The technical progress of magnetic tapes was accompanied by a corresponding progress in the sound quality of the compact cassette. In addition to the advances in iron oxide tapes, the introduction of chromium dioxide and later pure iron coatings ensured a perceptible leap in quality and, above all, of course, the introduction of Dolby B+C noise reduction. Two things, however, always remained "fatal": 1) If you recorded from the radio and the Radio DJ didn't wait for the song to end, but spoke into it. You could hear the swearing all the way down the street... 2) Spaghettied tape! If the fluttery strip got caught in the device... yes, then you had fun. A pencil was then your best friend! What we boys all did back then: We created an individual cassette for our beloved, a lot of love was put into the compilation and also the design of the cover. And I remember: when I had made such a cassette, today's song was the opener and the name-giver for the gift. Oh, what a romantic I was! ;-) Channel 5 was a German pop band from Hamburg, "No one else" dates from 1986. How do young people give away music today? A streaming voucher? Or a link to a playlist? Feel free to comment! Have a unique weekend. (cw25-2023_191) More: https://bit.ly/3VudwMj .