{"id":37602,"date":"2022-05-24T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=37602"},"modified":"2022-05-24T07:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:15:56","slug":"breaking-out-the-audio-cassettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/05\/24\/breaking-out-the-audio-cassettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking out the Audio Cassettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Breaking out the old Cassettes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52087122319\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52087122319_53be145d23_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Breaking out the old Cassettes\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Lately I&#8217;ve been giving the internet radio stations and podcasts a rest in favor of the magic of analog tape. There&#8217;s a few audio cassettes sitting around work, and I bought a few more from home. The <em>&#8220;portable&#8221; stereo<\/em> I&#8217;m playing the tapes on is not the answer to any audiophile&#8217;s dream, but considering that the tapes are well-worn bargain basement remainders from decades past, they play fairly well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been giving the internet radio stations and podcasts a rest in favor of the magic of analog tape. There&#8217;s a few audio cassettes sitting around work, and I bought a few more from home. The &#8220;portable&#8221; stereo I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/05\/24\/breaking-out-the-audio-cassettes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,120],"tags":[158,202,203,56,1162,5329,636],"class_list":["post-37602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","tag-analog","tag-audio","tag-cassette","tag-music","tag-old","tag-stereo","tag-tape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9Mu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2014,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/15\/the-lost-art-of-the-mix-tape-moak-enna-minnie\/","url_meta":{"origin":37602,"position":0},"title":"The Lost Art of the Mix Tape &#8211; Moak Enna Minnie","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"As I wrote before, Tina and I have been doing some either very late or very early Spring cleaning, and, in the process, came upon a bunch of old audio cassettes. 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