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Originally Posted by jwasbury
I felt the need to resurrect this thread as cassettes are on the menu once again for me. I recently picked up a new commuter vehicle (1998 MB E300 turbodiesel) which a cassette deck and a CD changer in the trunk. This is my second MB from this era, and in both of them the CD changer is wonky. I spend 4 hours a day commuting, so I want my tunes, but I prefer not to hack up my pristine, one owner Benzs with aftermarket stuff when the factory original stuff sounds pretty darn good. I dug up a few old cassettes and have been rediscovering music that I either never got on CD, and/or hadn't digitized. One thing I like about the cassette format (and also vinyl LP) is that skipping tracks is not convenient. In the CD and now MP3/digital age, its far too easy to have a short attention span and skip songs. Ease of changing tracks makes Shuffle play on the iPod a personal "greatest hits" album. As great as that can be, there's something special about the older formats (LP and cassette) in that they force you to take the album (or one side at least) as a whole. I went to the local vintage record store and bought a few cassettes from the 80's, only $1 each. Really appreciate the format right now, despite the shortcomings.
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I believe, there are companies that make a "dummy" cassette, with an audio jack to plug your MP3 player into. Stick in the dummy, and it imitates the reading of the cassette tape from the audio jack input.