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Mixtapes are some of the best things in the world! Passively telling someone how you feel through songs, spending the time to make sure songs transition into one another well, diversifying the genres, etc. It's really the only reason I miss tapes (sadly I don't even have a tape player anymore). Mix CDs just don't carry the same weight as tapes (it's much easier to queue up a bunch of songs in iTunes and burn a CD than sit at a stereo and wait for a song to finish before adding the next one).
Though I miss the idea of tapes, I like the practicality of mp3s. What's a sappy kid to do?
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NVDRS Tape is an mp3 player that, quite obviously, resembles an audio cassette tape. It comes in either 45, 60, or 90 minute options, (like a real tape). To make this mp3 experience even more organic, the only way to fast forward and rewind is to stick your finger in the spools and turn it manually:
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