It doesn’t matter if they PLAN to listen to them or not. Unless the storage facility they are using is environmentally controlled, those tapes will be ruined anyway. And even if they are, over time they are going to oxidize anyway just from sitting. Best thing to do is get something to plug into your computer and convert everything to MP3 format.
Ulan, you don’t get it because you’re only thinking about the content and not the medium. The cassettes themselves have sentimental value, and having them around, listened to or not, brings back memories of Bub’s youth.
I, for one, am dreading the day that books are thought of only in terms of their content. A beloved book is a beloved object, not just the words therein.
Still, Ulan, Bub’s resistance to throwing away the cassettes (as opposed to storing them) doesn’t presuppose that he ever plans to listen to them again. We know from previous days that he hasn’t listened to them in the past, and I assume he occasionally listens to the same music on other media. The fact that the tapes are decaying (i.e. “useless”) is irrelevant to him. Throwing them away would be equivalent to casting his grandmother adrift on an ice floe.
mamarose127 Premium Member about 13 years ago
Where’s the color?
steelersneo about 13 years ago
It doesn’t matter if they PLAN to listen to them or not. Unless the storage facility they are using is environmentally controlled, those tapes will be ruined anyway. And even if they are, over time they are going to oxidize anyway just from sitting. Best thing to do is get something to plug into your computer and convert everything to MP3 format.
farren about 13 years ago
Not MP3. You want a lossless protocol, not a lossy one like MP3.Of course, it depends on whether you want a perfect copy, or just a listenable one.
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
Ulan, you don’t get it because you’re only thinking about the content and not the medium. The cassettes themselves have sentimental value, and having them around, listened to or not, brings back memories of Bub’s youth.
I, for one, am dreading the day that books are thought of only in terms of their content. A beloved book is a beloved object, not just the words therein.
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
Still, Ulan, Bub’s resistance to throwing away the cassettes (as opposed to storing them) doesn’t presuppose that he ever plans to listen to them again. We know from previous days that he hasn’t listened to them in the past, and I assume he occasionally listens to the same music on other media. The fact that the tapes are decaying (i.e. “useless”) is irrelevant to him. Throwing them away would be equivalent to casting his grandmother adrift on an ice floe.
Jean_1960 about 13 years ago
We used to have a spare bedroom, but it’s full of hubby’s boxes. Sigh.
Jean_1960 about 13 years ago
I told hubby once the first step is realizing you have a problem, and he laughed at me.