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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.
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I am about 95% sure it just kept going to the end of the tape unless you hit stop.
No. Only newer-model tape players were able to recognize the "blank space" that allowed them to track skip.
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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?
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I was poor...and born in 1983. NONE of my players ever did this.
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.Ok, help settle a friendly argument at my work.
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.
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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.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette
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.
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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".
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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?
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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...
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......and there were some models where you had an option to skip to the 1st,2nd, or 3rd tune ....
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
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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.
What?? What players actually did that?
I also had minidisc player....it was suppose to be the next thing...sniff..
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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.
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Is it like one of those "record player" things?
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