You know me, I love cassettes...
This is a funky application, to quote the wire to the ear, "Here an interesting new application for Mac OS-X called TapeDeck. It's an audio recorder that looks like an old Radio Shack cassette deck. You can label your recordings cassettes with notes that look handwritten.
Your archived recordings are displayed in virtual cassette cases. All of this is pretty ridiculous except one feature could be very useful: Upload to YouTube.
Upload to YouTube sends your audio to YouTube and the video diplays your Cassette, the labeling your put on it and a little animation so you know it's playing"
To quote the marketing bit "TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard.
It's just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better."
I loved cassettes when the only (best?) way to record off the radio or an LP was to put a mic in front of the speaker and have to shout "shush" loudly when someone walked into the room quietly.
And I loved them when having to explain what they were to mum and dad (and grandma) and what Dolby (B) was... and dbx (dbx) was. Wow, dbx was expensive wasn't it. And DNL (wow, wasnt DNL the poor relative; Philips, and shit!).
Bias and EQ. What actually was that all about? 120 microseconds (and 170 microseconds?). Chrome tape!
I remember living in a flat with a guy called Roland in the early 80s (1982?) with an Akai (maybe Aiwa) cassette deck and we used to have to use a screwdriver to 'tune' the sound. In that sort of environment, what use is the microfine adjustment of bias and EQ? However, we could get 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' to sound unbelievable. The chicken currey was good too. We would put the curry on, go doen to the pub for an hour or two, and come back to a curry. In those days, pubs didn't have fridges (why not?). Instead they had metal trays filled with cold water (half and inch deep). Old cans went rusty. In those days Swan lager from Australia was only available in imported cans. Can't imagine that now. Cans were gold, red and black I seem to remember. It is what I drank.
Your archived recordings are displayed in virtual cassette cases. All of this is pretty ridiculous except one feature could be very useful: Upload to YouTube.
Upload to YouTube sends your audio to YouTube and the video diplays your Cassette, the labeling your put on it and a little animation so you know it's playing"
To quote the marketing bit "TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard.
It's just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better."
I loved cassettes when the only (best?) way to record off the radio or an LP was to put a mic in front of the speaker and have to shout "shush" loudly when someone walked into the room quietly.
And I loved them when having to explain what they were to mum and dad (and grandma) and what Dolby (B) was... and dbx (dbx) was. Wow, dbx was expensive wasn't it. And DNL (wow, wasnt DNL the poor relative; Philips, and shit!).
Bias and EQ. What actually was that all about? 120 microseconds (and 170 microseconds?). Chrome tape!
I remember living in a flat with a guy called Roland in the early 80s (1982?) with an Akai (maybe Aiwa) cassette deck and we used to have to use a screwdriver to 'tune' the sound. In that sort of environment, what use is the microfine adjustment of bias and EQ? However, we could get 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' to sound unbelievable. The chicken currey was good too. We would put the curry on, go doen to the pub for an hour or two, and come back to a curry. In those days, pubs didn't have fridges (why not?). Instead they had metal trays filled with cold water (half and inch deep). Old cans went rusty. In those days Swan lager from Australia was only available in imported cans. Can't imagine that now. Cans were gold, red and black I seem to remember. It is what I drank.
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