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The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services (hackaday.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not particularly high end, but I fairly recently bought a Mixxtape MP3 player for $60 new and it works well and can play as a cassette. The gimmick is wacky (but does work), but I mostly got it because I had to switch to a phone without a headphone jack and I wanted something small and inexpensive.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What the hell is even that?! It's an mp3 player that doubles as a cassette adaptor. That's wild

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, as I said, it is a wacky gimmick, and it does work. My teen kid got a big kick out of it and at the insane price some of the new artists have been charging to get their music in cassette form, it pays for itself in less than three albums if I already had them digitally.

    I will say again that it is a $60-ish portable music player, don't expect $1000 Sony gear build quality or interface. I specifically didn't want some sort of Franken-Android DAP, which most newer dedicated music players are, so it worked out.

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