Did All Tape Players Skip to Next Song?

[bulldog]

Ok, help settle a friendly argument at my work. :D

Did All Tape Players Skip to Next Song? Meaning you could hit the fast forward button and it would stop at the beginning of the next song. Or did you hit fast foward and it kept going till you manually stopped it or it got to the end of the tape?

I can see that maybe this was a special feature that some tape players had, but I am being told all tape players did this since the 70’s.

[grim]

I am about 95% sure it just kept going to the end of the tape unless you hit stop.

[~Barn~]

No. Only newer-model tape players were able to recognize the "blank space" that allowed them to track skip.

[Ezzzzy1]

No. Only newer-model tape players were able to recognize the "blank space" that allowed them to track skip.

I Second that motion

[salsashark]

No. Only newer-model tape players were able to recognize the "blank space" that allowed them to track skip.


I Second that motion

yup...

I think the tape player in my truck does this... it's the only one I have. But, I don't have any tapes to test it out.

But, do you remember holding the play button half way down to hear a song in FF and wait for the blank spot between the songs?

[brennahm]

I was poor...and born in 1983. NONE of my players ever did this.

[fasterlaster]

Ok, help settle a friendly argument at my work. :D

Did All Tape Players Skip to Next Song? Meaning you could hit the fast forward button and it would stop at the beginning of the next song. Or did you hit fast foward and it kept going till you manually stopped it or it got to the end of the tape?

I can see that maybe this was a special feature that some tape players had, but I am being told all tape players did this since the 70’s.

I agree with everyone else. Back in the late 80's when I got my first CD play in my Jeep, it was one of the things I looked forward to, not having to pay attention when wanting to find a particular track. Your friend is full of shit.

[bulldog]

Nice, I have four people over here telling me ALL tapes did this since the 70's! Like you guys said I never remember my tapes doing this and fast foward just kept going.

[grim]

everything you need to know right here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette

[Vance]

Nope... I worked at Silo (anyone remember them?) for a while in the late 80s and the "skip forward" tape decks for cars wasn't a common place item except in higher end JVC, Kenwood, Pioneer decks and not until around '89 when Pioneer started putting it into their cheaper decks then the off brands like Emerson and such started copying the tech.

It was in the home deck units for a while before that... but not by much, and still typically only on the higher end units.

[Ghost]

Same. Early tape players just fast-forwarded as long as you held the button down, only the more "recent" ones would stop at the gap between songs--which is why some mix tapes would screw it up if they were "gapless".

[Airreed]

Nate- I remember my Dad had an 8-track in his car back in the day and you could push a button and it would push forward to next song....maybe they are thinking 8-tracks?

[Ghosty]

Nice, I have four people over here telling me ALL tapes did this since the 70's! Like you guys said I never remember my tapes doing this and fast foward just kept going.
Who are these clowns? Of course not, that was a special feature on some models, later in the history of "cassette tape players". My old Onkyo was badass and expensive, so it did, but not many did before that.

I know nothing about 8-Tracks though...

[mdub]

......and there were some models where you had an option to skip to the 1st,2nd, or 3rd tune ....

[DorJammer]

8 tracks could switch to the next track, but not the next song, when they switched tracks they just went to the same place on the track 1 step down

Cassettes? Nope never saw one that could

[bulldog]

everything you need to know right here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette) I looked at that link but saw no mention of it. It is lengthy so didn't read it all. Did you find that one there Grim?


Nate- I remember my Dad had an 8-track in his car back in the day and you could push a button and it would push forward to next song....maybe they are thinking 8-tracks? That is actually how the argument started; I was saying how it was weird that 8 tracks did this but tapes didn't. That is when they started that all tapes had that feature.

[grim]

I looked at that link but saw no mention of it. It is lengthy so didn't read it all. Did you find that one there Grim?

That is actually how the argument started; I was saying how it was weird that 8 tracks did this but tapes didn't. That is when they started that all tapes had that feature.

I did the same thing I got pretty far but then my eyes started to burn.

[mxer]

What?? What players actually did that?

I also had minidisc player....it was suppose to be the next thing...sniff..

[mdub]

I still have'em

[asp_125]

I never had a skip forward tape deck until my Blaupunkt in the Jetta. I don't miss the weekends spent fishing that rats nest of cassette tape out of the dashboard.

I had a Walkman -> Discman -> MiniDisc. And then the first USB 8Gb memory stick players. So easy I can just stream Pandora on my phone now.

[Mother Goose]

What's a tape player?? :think:

[mdub]

I love my Touch. 32gb for tunes, podcasts, Internet, etc.

[asp_125]

What's a tape player?? :think:

Hush, young'in & git off mah lawn!

[Mother Goose]

Is it like one of those "record player" things?

[FZRACE97]

I still have my yellow Sony Sports walkamn circa 1984.

[Mother Goose]

I still have my yellow Sony Sports walkamn circa 1984.
The water proof one?! Lucky.....

[FZRACE97]

The water proof one?! Lucky.....

Yup, that thing is near bullit proof, never ate a single tape either.
Just missing the original ear phones from my neighbor's dog eating them.

[bulldog]

Was anyone as excited as I was when this adapter came out! I had a portable cd player, but no CD player in my car till that day :lol:
http://di1-2.shoppingshadow.com/images/pi/88/c0/00/106502940-260x260-0-0_eforcity+for+ipod+car+cassette+adapter+tape+cd+m d+.jpg

Then went all out and bought a car platform that had small shock absorbers (anti-skip cd players had not been invented yet)

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Cup-Holder-Car-Mount-Portable-DVD-VCR-MP3-CD-Player-/05/!B61tivQB2k~$(KGrHqIOKnMEy15K7Ib5BMyfjLMqFw~~-1_35.JPG


Then got crafty and drilled a small hole in my home tape player system for the wire to run through and suddenly I had a home CD player. That was basically when tapes went out for me :D

Funny now that I think about it because that cd player (old school Optimus; Radio Shack brand) took 8 AA batteries to run it! Spent a fortune on batteries till I got a cigarette power adapter :lol:

[salsashark]

Was anyone as excited as I was when this adapter came out! I had a portable cd player, but no CD player in my car till that day :lol:
http://di1-2.shoppingshadow.com/images/pi/88/c0/00/106502940-260x260-0-0_eforcity+for+ipod+car+cassette+adapter+tape+cd+m d+.jpg


Then? Hell, I still use one of these in my truck... except I plug it in to my phone so I can stream pandora/slacker/mp3s :lol:

I keep telling myself that I need a new stereo for the truck, but I just don't drive it enough.


Then went all out and bought a car platform that had small shock absorbers (anti-skip cd players had not been invented yet)

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Cup-Holder-Car-Mount-Portable-DVD-VCR-MP3-CD-Player-/05/!B61tivQB2k~$(KGrHqIOKnMEy15K7Ib5BMyfjLMqFw~~-1_35.JPG


Yep... had one mounted on the transmission hump in my mustang in high school. worked great until the little rubber bushings started to wear out and every time you would take the cd player off, the top tray would come off with it.

[bulldog]

Then? Hell, I still use one of these in my truck... except I plug it in to my phone so I can stream pandora/slacker/mp3s :lol:

I keep telling myself that I need a new stereo for the truck, but I just don't drive it enough.



Yep... had one mounted on the transmission hump in my mustang in high school. worked great until the little rubber bushings started to wear out and every time you would take the cd player off, the top tray would come off with it. Yup same thing happened to mine. Funny I still have it somewhere in storage along with that first cd player I got that still works!

Did you ever use the cd players bass boost to act like you had a thumpin system? I thought that was so cool at the time; flipped the switched and had double the bass in my car :lol:

[asp_125]

I feel so old.....
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jhall/blog/assets_c/2011/10/pencil-tape-thumb-400x342-99326.jpg

[Ghosty]

I still have a bag full of DJ/Rave mix tapes from the 90's. It was fun being able to rock 'em out in the Supra, before I got a nice Alpine DVD in there instead. I've converted a few to MP3, need to do the rest. Sound quality though, hahaa, blech. No high-range crisp treble at all.

[FZRACE97]

Is it live, or is it Memorex?

[Ghost]

I feel so old.....
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jhall/blog/assets_c/2011/10/pencil-tape-thumb-400x342-99326.jpg

Hehe, my 1995 z28 came with a tape deck that liked to eat tapes, so I had to keep a pencil in the glovebox.

[#1Townie]

Haha best use of a pencil. I hated it when i couldnt find one and had to use my finger. Lol

[Ghost]

Haha best use of a pencil. I hated it when i couldnt find one and had to use my finger. Lol

Those clear hard-plastic Bic pens worked well too since they had the same hexagonal shape as a pencil...do those pens even exist anymore?

[bulldog]

Those clear hard-plastic Bic pens worked well too since they had the same hexagonal shape as a pencil...do those pens even exist anymore? Forgot what I used but had to do this on some VHS tapes to reel them back up too :lol:

[grim]

I would use my Grandpa's drill :lol: much faster, untill the one time i forgot to let go and it snapped at the end, ruined my Ozzy tape.

[#1Townie]

Those clear hard-plastic Bic pens worked well too since they had the same hexagonal shape as a pencil...do those pens even exist anymore?

Haha yeah good times. Or taking those really cheap mechanical pencils and turning them into little bb guns.

[Ghost]

Forgot what I used but had to do this on some VHS tapes to reel them back up too :lol:

Magic Marker ftmfw.


Haha yeah good times. Or taking those really cheap mechanical pencils and turning them into little bb guns.

Lol, that too.

[#1Townie]

Yeah but you had to put a little tape on it so it didnt make that snap sound. We called them silencers. Haha

[grim]

Yeah but you had to put a little tape on it so it didnt make that snap sound. We called them silencers. Haha

You talking about when you would take a staple bend one angle straigt out then make the 90 degree angle into a 45 pull the tip off the pencil put the staple in and pull the back end?

:lol: good fucking times.

[asp_125]

:lol: ... We used pins as blow darts.

[grim]

:lol: ... We used pins as blow darts.

Also remember folding a piece of paper a million times forming it into a rectangle then bending it into a U and shooting it with a rubber band, werent they called Hornets, or stingers?

These are the weapons we will be using when the aliens take all of our guns.

[bulldog]

Also remember folding a piece of paper a million times forming it into a rectangle then bending it into a U and shooting it with a rubber band, werent they called Hornets, or stingers?

These are the weapons we will be using when the aliens take all of our guns. Yeah! And if you wanted to be really mean you put a staple on the front part of that piece of paper or bent a paper clip in the middle of it.

We use to also twist two staples together to make spikes! Still remember my buddy threw a few on this girls chair and she put her knee on them.

[grim]

Yeah! And if you wanted to be really mean you put a staple on the front part of that piece of paper or bent a paper clip in the middle of it.

We use to also twist two staples together to make spikes! Still remember my buddy threw a few on this girls chair and she put her knee on them.


Kids in the 80's and 90's were little fuckers but at least we weren't sucker punching people.

[asp_125]

Kids in the 80's and 90's were little fuckers but at least we weren't sucker punching people.

.. and I remember kids making throwing stars and nunchucks in shop class :headbang:

Today we'd be arrested and expelled for bringing weapons into class.:gay:

[mdub]

nunchucks , throwing stars hahaha

[grim]

Since we are talking about tape players who remembers this?

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h54/irishrussianpunk/gcc/tumblr_m0yrj3T0X11qkgojuo1_500.jpg

[grim]

Oh lordy

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h54/irishrussianpunk/gcc/tumblr_m04ncddDwP1qkgojuo1_500.jpg

[bluedogok]

What?? What players actually did that?

I also had minidisc player....it was suppose to be the next thing...sniff..
RIAA killed that (and DAT) because of piracy concerns, the consumer models in the US had some onerous copy protection schemes on them. When I was in Tokyo in 1996 I went to some record stores and they had more Minidiscs than CD's, they also had stores where you could "rent" a CD or MD for a week like you could movies at Blockbuster.

I still have some 8-tracks and a bunch of cassettes.

[Ghost]

RIAA killed that (and DAT) because of piracy concerns, the consumer models in the US had some onerous copy protection schemes on them. When I was in Tokyo in 1996 I went to some record stores and they had more Minidiscs than CD's, they also had stores where you could "rent" a CD or MD for a week like you could movies at Blockbuster.

I still have some 8-tracks and a bunch of cassettes.


It was still the same way when I was in Japan in 2001--and most cars came with dual MD/CD or even MD-only stock stereo head units.

[mxer]

It was still the same way when I was in Japan in 2001--and most cars came with dual MD/CD or even MD-only stock stereo head units.

I had a MD deck in my old car:|