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tape casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing. im out here living in 2095.

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things you can record (audio only), simply by lying to your computer, telling it that the tape recorder is actually a set of headphones:

and with a VCR you could do all of this AND have the visuals as well\u2026 but an audio cassette recorder is a good place to start, since they\u2019re small and simple. I would not recommend a boombox, because those are large and nowadays all very, very bad quality.

Now you may be saying\u00a0\u201chow is any of this helpful, I want a digital file\u2026\u201d here\u2019s the fucking magic. You go into Audacity (free program), and lie to it that the tape recorder is really a microphone. Then you hit record on Audacity, and hit play on the tape, and let it play at regular speed. Trim and export the digital file, and you\u2019re doing gangbusters. You\u2019re cooking with gas. You\u2019re thinking with portals. You\u2019ve won the internet.

Congratulations, you can \u201cpirate\u201d* anything you want, and literally no one can catch you, because you\u2019re not downloading in the traditional sense. You\u2019re streaming to an external device, and that device is recording what it receives. It\u2019s exactly like taping a live tv show to a VHS. This is a very low-key and non-strenuous task for the computer, since your tape recorder does all the work.

*Is this piracy? No. Well- it\u2019s time shifting. Sort of. Tell it to my Steely Dan albums. Tell it to my The Sims: Hot Date VG Soundtrack album.

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