Not wanting to push my luck, I archived it. On Minidisc.
I have quite a large CD collection. Two albums from the same era are unplayable due to oxidization, same band Banco De Gaia, pressed at the same plant in the UK too.
And surprisingly, the quality is not too bad for my non-audiophile ears. Especially if you go beyond Type-I cassettes
Yea, I use Type II cassettes to record on my Tascam 246. I did an experiment where I recorded a track I made digitally to tape and then back into the DAW. I A/B'd them and struggled to differentiate. That being said, I have used some really poor quality Type II tapes, where the difference was obvious.
It comes in bursts but when he's into it, he has a ton of fun, The manual nature of it is confusing for him (he's used to instant gratification), like waiting a few seconds at the beginning of the tape so he can record, but something about a cassette makes the whole process easier to explain and, I hope, to understand and visualize.
A lot of mixes and singles are unavailable in electronic form. Or maybe they were until they weren’t Anything can disappear in an instant on streaming platforms.
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Tapes and floppies are "obsolete" if you don't have to worry about malicious controllers embedded in flash media or hard drives.
Paper is "obsolete" if you don't have to worry about cost per square inch of displaying static information, or about running without batteries.