What is the most archaic music format that you remember unironically using?

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It’s cassette tapes for me

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Vinyl.

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Tapes ofc but they remain relevant at least in DIY communities.
I’d go for VHS tapes of TOTP

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Hearing it live

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Minidisc (if most archaic means obsolete for longest)

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Yeah I think it does, otherwise we’ll all just say vinyl I guess

(As ruffers said tapes are still used but you’re not getting them in Tesco so I think it counts)

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My dad still has a reel to reel tape recorder. We used it as kids, mainly for recording theme tunes off the telly, and then recording our own episodes.

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78s. Bought a wind up gramophone during Covid so my wife and her mother could listen to a collection handed down to them.

At one stage during Covid I had all the equipment to play the following formats in one room:

  • 78s.
  • Reel-to-reel.
  • Vinyl.
  • Cassettes.
  • CDs.
  • SACDs.
  • MiniDiscs.
  • Digital files.

Was pretty sweet.

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Cassettes are back in now.

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physical copies of sheet music

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Memories

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What about your 8-tracks?

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Do have very vague memories of my dad having a reel to reel (asked him a while ago if he still has it but he traded it in) but never used it personally so just cassette. A childhood friend dad’s car had an 8 track in it.

Oh my partners mother had a wind up gramophone and about three 78s but it didn’t work. It had been her parents wedding gift (must have been a very expensive gift and I’m guessing they could never afford the 78s). Just sat in the living room for decades until she finally gave it to some sort of gramophone preservation society.

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Minstrel

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I didn’t do it but if I’d had more space I may well have done the same during lockdown - found myself looking at minidiscs even though I’ve never owned a player etc.

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Can still get these at my local cineworld

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Thought this was for the Official Winding up your Partner thread.

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Cassettes, had a bunch of educational ones that my mum would put in the hi fi, a behemoth that was bigger than the tv

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A gentle reminder that if you ever see an original album on MiniDisc in a charity shop, grab it! They can go for daft money.

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Also me on the recorder, fucking up twinkle twinkle little star

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