@thomasfuchs My first thought was that you were saying 1998 was 50 years ago, and I just wasn't ready for that this morning.

@thomasfuchs Oxygene that old?!

And hell no.

@gjmwoods 😊 right up your alley

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Compact cassette was never and is still not a very high fidelity format. I like tapes and had several hundred at one point (back in the day), but they were for the car and my Walkman, not for my home hifi.

Lossless digital has been here for years and is just getting better and better. The bits will get bigger. All analogue formats are for possers, snobs and hipsters.

@thomasfuchs OMG is it 50 years since Oxygene? Damn, I'm old.

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Same cassette, same result. 😃
Tape hasn't been played for 35 years at least.

@thomasfuchs music, and possibly, we won't be around...

@thomasfuchs I think streaming services will not be around, but I hope I can still plug my HDD in and enjoy the media I digitally own

@thomasfuchs I have a Panasonic unit from the same era, sadly in need of new belts. They really were marvels of engineering. They’re not much bigger than the cases cassettes came in. Mine commuted with me to work for years.

@thomasfuchs I was 5 or 6 the first time I heard about Walkman, and I was 100% sure it was some kind of a superhero

@thomasfuchs and excellent tape too 👌😄 #jeanmichellejarre #oxygen

@thomasfuchs I remember enjoying that album. Now I feel old. You bastard.

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I love JMJ's music.

@thomasfuchs Voy a llamar al amigo @philspectrum para que vea esto.

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Wow ! What's your secret!

Most of my old cassettes have got increasingly muffled,

Or the tape has stretched and/or broken

And the hiss certainly gets worse.

@thomasfuchs No, the streaming services will have gone, but the music, in full lossless digital quality will still be there.