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Appropriate, it's a real cracker.

What about your gram? I hope she's well these days.

Thanks :D

@@themoviedealers 😅🤣😂🤣😅

Funny that companies were still trying to make garbage products even back in the 80s! If you have any similar stories I'd love to hear them.

Epic story 🤣

I imagine the reaction from the manager: "Oh great, now i have to do my job...".

I wanted to join the BBC in the late 80's (1986 I think...) as a transmitter technical assistant. I used to work for Tandy's part time while at college and got to talk with a couple of chaps from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter station who came in to buy some bits and pieces. I was studying for my A-levels in electronics, maths and physics and had passed my radio amateur exam, they suggested I did a tour of the facility and had an initial interview which went nicely and then went to London for a formal interview. It was an absolute nightmare! I got dropped off outside central London, had to get my way in by tube for the first time, the heavens opened and I got drenched - I got lost but found Broadcasting House and got barked at by the receptionist because I couldn't find my tube ticket because everything was sticking together. I wasn't that bothered about the expenses but that really set the mood for the whole experience. Total disaster - I was so damn nervous and I didn't perform at the interview and failed. But in retrospect I'm pretty glad I didn't go down that route. I've always had an interest in broadcast and have worked with a consultancy in the DTV testing and conformance sector but have spent most of my career in the semiconductor industry as an applications engineer. With the sell-off of the broadcast infrastructure in the 90's and the commercialisation of services I'm glad I chose the path I chose. Nice to hear from someone else who almost but didn't :)

The note was written with their own blood, I presume?

Those are the best memories. It always weirds me out though. Why did I remember THAT?

@@Mandalore06 anything associated with a certain memory can trigger you to remember it. It might be a song, smell, taste or sound that triggers it and it can be very nice indeed.

Nikita was a mid 80s track so way more than 20 years ago!

@@jonathaneastwood2927 I really hope you're just being a troll and you've not meant that as an insightful response. Unless you are like the person I worked with not long before that point who insisted on not watching or listening to anything more than 5 years old. He took the piss out of the fact I was reading a novel while we worked together so I suspect he wasn't a great reader. He wasn't an unpleasant guy but you'd not want him on your pub quiz team.

@@mallockarcher I for one think their comment is genuine and a bit funny ; it shouldn't be surprising that shops playing background music can't afford the rights to play the very latest hits :-)

I laughed out loud!

Happy little tapes; they live right here.

I love this comment :)

You could call each failed audio format a happy accident. Especially when TM gets his hands on one 😁

"let's play some happy little tapes"

Love it! Totally spot on!

fascinating! thanks!

What's the best way to clean mold off tape? I have a few cassettes that have white mold just like the tape in this video.

@@ShyStudios best way? You need to kill the mould. Baking in a scientific oven (don't use your home oven!!) between 45-52 Celcius works best. Don't use chemicals. Then open cassette, brush off excess mould (don't expect to remove much, most will stay on the tape) with very soft brush. FFW and REW tape, open cassette again and clean out with soft brush again.

so that is why companies store their long term backup tapes for the servers in salt mines. constant temp and humidity. Or more accurately constant temp and humidity that does not require mechanical systems which can fail.

@@owenbutcher Ill give that a try, I actually have a lil low temp oven I use for evaporating stuff

Cheeeeeeesy! Thanks!

6. Everything I Do - Bryan Adams

4 Loco In Acapulco? Sure sounds like it

5 Shake You Down

7 Cher Love and Understanding

And don't forget to clean behind you ears and under your foreskin at least twice a week. Its also very important to de-ice your freezer once a year and always shave with the grain. Christ (-:

@@chrisphobia I don’t get your response. I clean VHS tapes all the time with 90% alcohol while I spool them. If you put a mouldy tape through the player the spores if active will contaminate the next tape you play and even if they aren’t active it will gunk everything up and audio quality will suffer. Bassquake is giving very good advice.

Tweaking the head azimuth would help also.

@@chrisphobia Stupid and unnecessary reply. If those mould spores are still active they will contaminate other tapes played on the machine if it hasn't been thoroughly cleaned. Bassquake's advice is good advice to follow.

@@kevinh96 I don't think anything about chris' advice is bad either hahaha

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@@Mitch_Rogoff Techmoan releases his videos on Patreon early as an unlisted video.

It was fun to watch, and looks like more fun to do.

Isn't that what a hobby is?

@@Mitch_Rogoff Read the fucking description.

Can relate. I work with train simulators and when watching videos involving them, sometimes try to change the camera angle and wondering why it doesn't work.

I feel like it’s only an attempt to get ahead of know-it-alls in the comments…!

Eh he could've done far worse. I started splicing 8 tracks in 2010 at 13 years old and I can make them and Muntz 4's work again to this day. Not trying to say I'm any better or worse, merely an observation

"was that it!?!"

Oil and tape are not friends.

@@zorktxandnand3774 Those tapes were lubricated with something, maybe a silicone lube.

@@BryanTorok All cartridges like these or 8track or jinglemachine cartridges have a coating of gravite on it. Never oil or silicone. Old knowlidge... 😇

but because if the molt are they not about to die

I do video tape conversions... on mouldy tapes I add a few drops of isopropyl alcohol to loosen the mould.

At first I thought that one was "I Want To Know What Love Is," because the synth was so Foreigner-y.

I have wanted to rescue a friend's broken 8-track cartridge copy of her wedding by using a reel to reel machine, but I'd imagine I'd have to mask a section of the r2r machine's head to isolate tracks. I haven't figured out how to do that effectively :-(

i knew it right away lol

@@ericsills6484 With broken you mean that the splicer tape has come off? Because that's easily fixed. There are some 8-track enthusiast groups on FB, they will be happy to help, or point you to someone in your area who can do it for you if you're not confident doing it yourself. Doing it on your r2r won't work at best, and will ruin your r2r head *and* the tape at worst.

The tape broke somewhere in the middle. I got a splicing kit, but was not successful with it. I just had to scrap it.

I think your splicing was pretty good Mat! 👍

If you analyse how the (original) Chipmunks achieved their results pre-digital, it was actually quite impressive. They had to sing at half speed!

3) Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover Well done on the Barbara Streisand one, I didn't get that but you're right. Can't get 4, 9 & 10. I keep thinking that #10 is something like Bucks Fizz or something, it's super poppy. Hope someone can help us.

@@NewFalconerRecords It's a cover from Ryan Paris biggest hit "Dolce Vita".

@@solojinglesradio1 Yes, I've seen a few people say that. I'm not familiar with the song myself. And #4 is 'I'm Doing Fine Now' by New York City (never heard that one) and #9 is 'Liberian Girl' by Michael Jackson (don't know that one either). Cheers!

That’ll mostly be down to the video editing.

@@Techmoan So you are also proficient in that! :-)

That’s gross but cool 🤣

love watching him aswell. Auckland, NZ

Audacity was absolutely fine, but the spyware thing is down to whether you think that the telemetry data they're collecting now constitutes spyware. Personally, the way audacity is being handled leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but it's far from the worst bit of spyware on most users' systems (Windows itself is much worse for example).

for sure there is so much of those types of stories on the net .

​@@richardbrobeck2384 I loved that movie!

@@FaultyStreams What, there's a movie about Audacity?

@@unduloid From what I can tell, the last two words of his comment were "The Net".

Cutting off the higher frequencies may also happen in any sort of prior compression. Good for pointing that out! 👍

@Kent Teffeteller but at twice the speed as it was transferred there may be cut offs, I understand.

I suspect the carbon backing helped out.

Agreed! Love watching them. He is fascinating and so precise. I can only dream of being like that :)

Facts Hercule, facts..

Also all the deal about Audacity being crap now is mostly limited to _now_ specifically, using an older version solves all problems and I don't even know if there's any advantage between versions a few years old.

@@Kalvinjj honestly, it didn’t look much different from the versions I used heavily circa 2009-2012! I’d certainly not be inclined to install every single update Just Cos.

I agree. When I'm listening to original tapes or records on the original equipment, I'm listening to history. If a tape or a record is beat up, it only means it has a story. Maybe a little daughter of the record owner scratched the record. Maybe that muffled 8-track sat in a hot car for years and has traveled 100k miles. I find that more interesting than "hey Google, play music".

@@erwintimmerman6466 I have an old vinyl copy of Sgt Pepper (the label on it indicates it was pressed between 1969-1972, so not a first pressing but still quite old) that has a lot of minor surface-level scratches around the edges. I like to imagine that the original owner was someone with really long nails lol

It's only a recent thing with Audacity 3.0 and later--it was acquired by Muse Group who say in their Ts&Cs that they will collect limited personal information to "improve the app", and that this can both be sold and given to law enforcement. Obviously there's no user account or anything like that in Audacity so you'd assume what they can harvest is limited, but the fact they're doing it at all in what's nominally an open source application is what has people's backs up.

@@d2factotum Indeed, though I believe that in light of the outcry they've reversed the policy. Before then there were a couple of forks, but since the policy change those have been abandoned as unnecessary. If the people motivated enough to make a fork are satisfied with the about-face, that's good enough for me.

@@TheJamesM I hadn't heard that, thanks!

@@d2factotum Thanks for the info. I'll keep that in mind and check the status before whenever the next time is that I have occasion to use it. Severely disappointed that an open-source app would pull this crap, especially one as otherwise/previously excellent as Audacity.

@@d2factotum You appear to be trapped in the past. Specifically May 2021. Have you read the privacy policy since then? It was updated to say "telemetry is strictly optional and disabled by default". It's very easy to see if a program is phoning home, and no-one has found Audacity to be phoning home unless you allow it to.

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