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Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.
Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.
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From around the mid nineties some tape decks would fast forward to the next song and late model VHS players had the same function (I bought one about 2005 for my old VHS tapes and home movies from my childhood but I don’t know when models with this function started being sold).
But
The tape decks with the auto fast forward and rewind function were expensive
You had to wait more than a few seconds while the tape wound forward (yes it was an actual tape on a reel in the cassette)
We had cds by the nineties so if you had the money to buy one of these things most people would buy a cd player instead.
They only worked on commercial albums you had bought not homemade mix tapes and they were kinda hit and miss on the bought ones to be honest ( the vhs player worked on home recorded tapes but the one I bought is the only one I know that did the auto fast forward and rewind thing and VHS was well and truly dead by then).
They were just as likely to chew up the tapes as the regular tape decks and Walkmans.
I think the main reason tapes hung on as long as they did was they worked better on the move. Personal cd players and car stereo cd players were shit for years, the cds got scratched to fuck and became unusable at the slightest bump. At least if a tape got chewed it was often still useable with a little doctoring and a lot of hope, even if the audio was a bit warped in the chewed section.
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A naturally formed, finger-like growth of the mineral malachite stalactite.
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