04-23-2025, 06:55 AM
(04-22-2025, 07:10 AM)Polident wrote:(04-22-2025, 06:05 AM)chronovore wrote:(04-21-2025, 08:57 AM)Polident wrote: I dealt with VHS tapes in my early youth and naturally there’s some nostalgia there. Mostly when it came to recording TV programs. But when the switch to DVD happened, it was near uniformly better. Even cassette tapes still had an advantage against CDs.
What advantage is there in audio cassette over CD?
No skipping when running. That’s about it for music. And it was easier to modulate play speed and direction to hear secret message from the devil.
Eventually the mp3 cd players with minuscule flash storage could cache songs. But I think even the first iPods with hard drive were prone to skipping.
The iPods didn't skip, unless you're really talking about first-generation, about which I know nothing. There was some portion of buffered memory for playback, it would have prevented that. A hard drive skipping is going to have much bigger problems.
Maybe you're thinking about early portable CD players, which did not have buffering memory?