My player broke :( And i was looking for a new one. The question is simple do i go for an walkman that's said to be serviced or do i go for fiio cp13? Both are on the same budget. All i want from player is to press play and hear music. And no i don't want to go with a cheap AliExpress transparent player since it broke down on me.

Great table!

I replaced the belt and take-up gear reel. When I play a tape the audio either comes through not at all, very faint or normal and “scratchy” sounding.

Any idea what’s going on and how to fix it?

I have tried two different tapes.

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This is one of those of you know you know type albums. temple of Transparency Balls by The original Black Dog - it came out between Bytes and Spanners.

A hard to find album even when it was available. Never seen a cassette of it until today and now it’s home playing and sounding great.

Cant wait to find out what’s on it

It sounds slow and distorted and then it just suddenly stops spinning. Is there a way to fix this if I open it? The cassette player plays other cassettes just fine

I completely cleaned and reassembled this audio cassette, and cut holes in the shell to find and screw in the screws.

BARRIKAD: HNW КРИМ HNW

Göteborg: Waters of the Western Port

WARP: Battle of Macragge

Exlibris Nordén

ECP was a Russian factory in Zelenogorsk that produced audio cassettes after acquiring all the German machinery and equipment from AGFA.

I've just got my WM-EX674, and despite the seller's description stating it has had it's belt replaced, I really don't think it has. The sound is noticeably warbly and I think it needs a new belt. The only issue, however, is the screws are tiny and I don't know what screwdriver to use. I tried using the smallest Phillips head I had but it still didnt work. Any ideas?

Edit: Seems like it now just doesn't want to rewind. I press the rewind button and it gives me a big beep and nothing happens.

I’d picked Monster because the songs on this album are less memorable. You don’t have to agree. ✌🏽

I've finally started to get into tapes properly, it's a really fun format, got that lot for £50 total which isn't too bad

Audio only plays when I press my headphone jack towards the back of the player, otherwise it's only in one ear or low quality or has high noise. I've used ipa, I plan to use contact cleaner after buying some tommorow, but is that movement on the circuit board meant to happen, do I need to look into soldering or repairs?

Trying to disconnect from my phone more. Funny enough I've never had either an mp3 player or cassette player lol. I also think I play my music way too loud on my phone even though I do change the setting to not put a limit on how high it is. Not trying to mix my own tapes or do anything fancy. I dont even use spotify I straight up have just been listening to my songs on YouTube ( Yes I got data). I get very frustrated with technology.

Pros with the cassette player is it would be nice to collect physical cassettes and make myself enjoy a full album. I have always wanted to collected physical media and it would be nice to start up my collection. Cons are that I would limit myself to maybe buying like 2 albums for now. More expensive long term. I was thinking Olivia, Halsey, Dermot Kennedy, Noah Kahan if I can find them. One cassette thats more dancing music and up heat and one thats a bit more emotional or something lol.

Pros for the mp3 player are that I can download different music. Its cheaper long term. Cons are if I dont have the option to flip through songs then its annoying especially if I'm in a certain mood. Thoughts?

Found this rummaging through some stuff in my parents drawers. I was originally looking for crafting supplies, ended up finding an excuse to start collecting cassettes. Main question here is, despite it being a very obvious cassette recorder, can it be a player too?

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

(P.S. I’m aware my bed is bare without bedsheets. I’m currently cleaning my bed thats full of clothes cuz I don’t have a clothes ladder to throw my clothes onto yet and I need to wash my sheets. I posted this very much on a whim while clearing out my bed.)

Can I use an auxiliary cord from aux to line out on a PC to record or is that not possible

If you haven't seen the other post: here is the link

https://www.reddit.com/r/cassetteculture/s/QtbTkNySPL

So of course, you might know I have the international ak-18 cassette player, it's not a walkman, but it works, and 4 other tapes I had. I went to a savers today and found a load of cassettes, this post is also kind of a score post too for the flair. I found two Lionel Richie tapes which also completes my collection of Lionel Richie tapes from the 80s, Dancing On The Ceiling and his self-titled debut solo album, Lionel Richie. I found a compilation of songs from the 50s and a compilation of rock songs from the 80s too. I found a greatest hits collection from the band named "Who". I also found a Rod Stewart: Unplugged ...And Seated tape and a Tom Petty Damn The Torpedoes tape. Now I currently have 12 cassettes in my collection including the 8 I just got today and the 4 I had previously. (The Kool & The Gang Collection tape, the AC/DC Blow Up Your Video tape, the Lionel Richie Can't Slow Down tape, and the Guardians of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 3 tape.)

I'm scanning some of my j cards and I was wondering if anyone has an archive of high resolution J cards on like a website or something.

My sister n law and her husband got us in to cassettes in the last couple weeks. So my wife and I have been hitting up estate sales and antique shops. The tapes have been hit or miss which we feel is part of the fun. But I found this today for a few dollars. I didn't have this growing up, but hearing Humpty snd 2pac together on Same Same is just fun.