Daily Prompt | Listen to the radio
I remember those old days when listening to the radio was as normal as going online is today.
As a teenager, I used to buy blank cassette tapes — that is, unrecorded ones — so I could record my favorite songs.
To do that, you had to listen to the radio and be ready to hit the REC button the moment the song in question started playing.
It was pretty exciting, because you knew your favorite songs would come on, but you never knew when. You also had to predict the ending, since nobody wanted to record the DJ's voice or some commercial tagging along.
From that era I still keep several dozen cassette tapes, which can no longer be played due to the lack of a working cassette player — because even though there are analog radios in the house, the tape decks no longer work, likely due to decades of accumulated dust.
I also suppose my teenage tastes aren't the same as my adult ones anymore, although I must admit that in my case, trends don't have much influence. In fact, I refuse to call most of today's trendy noise "music."
Recuerdo esos viejos tiempos en los que escuchar la radio era tan normal como lo es hoy entrar a internet.
En mi adolescencia solía comprar cassettes vírgenes, es decir, sin grabación, para así poder grabar mis temas favoritos.
Para hacerlo tenías que escuchar la radio, y estar listo para presionar el botón REC apenas sonase la canción en cuestión.
Era bastante emocionante, porque sabías que pasarían tus temas favoritos, pero no sabías cuándo. Además tenías que predecir el final, porque nadie quería grabar las palabras del locutor, o alguna publicidad.
De aquella época aún guardo varias docenas de cassettes, que ya no pueden ser oídos a falta de un reproductor de cassettes, porque aunque hay radios analógicas en la casa, los casseteros ya no funcionan, posiblemente debido a décadas de polvo acumulado.
Además supongo que mis gustos de adolescente ya no serán los mismos de mi versión adulta, aunque debo admitir que en mi caso, la moda no influye. De hecho, me niego a llamar música a mucho del ruido de moda por estos días.

Ohhh I had the same experience too, finger on record button, all set to press the moment my favourite song is played. But sometimes, my reflex is a little slow that I miss the first second and then the process repeated trying to record a better version the next time. Thank you for sharing this, brought back nostalgic memories for me 🥰
Without a doubt, these were unique times, and although we didn't achieve the perfect version the first time, the process was still enjoyable.
Thanks for the comment, it's good to know that others understand us hehe.
Have a great weekend!
Hehe thank you! And a great weekend to you too! I love GOT!
Thank you very much!
If you liked Game of Thrones, you'll surely like the saga that inspired it: The Accursed Kings. I must reread it; it's very good, even though there are no dragons or White Walkers.
Have a great day!
How about being a MOD and comment on some posts in CCC?
By the way: you post in your blog, not in the community.
Woops.. sorry sorry.. really lost touch. Was wondering how to post in CCC. Just saw the 'New Post' button in the CCC community.
Let me comment without being a MOD first haha. See if I can keep up.
No problem. At times it also goes wrong even if I am sure I posted in the community it ends up in my blog.we only have commenters, no longer really check except daily diaries are not welcome and gaming reports.
The community should stay creative.
Somehow those DJs always had to speak after the song started. Took me many attempts to get the recording perfect.
And before and during the song and they make a lot of noise. These days, if you ask me, they just play off some list balways the same songs.
That's right. They apparently get paid to popularize certain topics, especially when they're organizing concerts.
Now with Spotify and other apps, I don't know how they manipulate the top charts.
profit comes first...
Always. I was never a fan, I just like some of the songs, and sometimes I don't even know who sings them, hehe.
But the music business is all about creating fans, and to do that they invest heavily in marketing, until they become popular! There will be exceptions, of course.
These days, anyone can release their own song, and I do think that radio stations are paid to play the same tune every hour.
Artists aren’t very happy with Spotify either; they seem to earn very little from it, and there’s also the problem that they’re paid in the local currency. So if their song is streamed 200,000 times in a particular country, the artist is paid in that currency, and very little money actually ends up in their pocket. The cost of a paid account depends on the country you live in.
I use Musicolete which is easier, offline and for free.
Musicolete sounds like a good alternative!
There's something odd about the art world; I don't know if it's changed, but for example, published authors usually receive pennies for every book sold. You need to be a best-selling author to get decent treatment.
In music, I suppose they have to split it with the record label, the manager, marketing, and the government.
Well, the government makes us all equal, it takes money from everyone!
If you ask me a lot of money is made with art and squeezed of talented people by middle men, promotors, record labels, galleries, it just doesn't end up in the wallets of most people.
So if it comes to it I go free art.
I doubt the governments take from everyone equally. With us the poor pay relatively the most, highest percentages, while the wealthy hardly pay and the royal family leaves tax free!
However, the distribution and the tax base will always be unfair, because those in power give privileges to themselves and their friends.
By the way, I don't know if I could live in a monarchy; I think it's something very archaic that should be eliminated, and all the wealth returned to the people.
Probably some kind of manipulation there
Kids today have no idea what we had to go through back then Lol.
And now they're farming Aura. Can someone explain to me what they're supposed to be doing?!
Yeah. We really have to go through a lot for that.
What is Aura? I will need to look that up. haha
Put the track in English. I'm scared of the future; we'll live surrounded by idiots!
I couldn't find English in the settings, so I had to look 'aura farming' up! But on a related note, I often catch myself feeling like critical thinking and common sense are becoming rarer these days. It feels terrifyingly easy to manipulate people with misinformation, and it honestly has nothing to do with thinking I'm smart—it’s just a fear of seeing how easily people fall for it all around us. I definitely don't want to end up getting swept into all those silly trends, either
That's a shame, maybe you should update your YouTube app; in the settings some videos have an audio track option, although with terrible diction.
And you're right, people stopped thinking for themselves, and even stopped doubting. In the age of artificial intelligence, that's a danger.
I will try to check on my mobile device for this because I previously tried to watch it on my desktop. The caption can be so lousy at times. I was so frustrated when I tried to watch Japanese anime with the caption.
People love to use filter for their selfies but not as much for the information around them
Yeah, sometimes the subtitles are terrible, haha. Have you ever tried Pluto TV? They have an anime section.
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Thank you for the words of encouragement. At least now I won't kick myself too much when I feel subpar at times—I'll just keep learning and practicing harder. And wow, I get to receive a booming vote! Thank you again
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Mirá, esas docenas de cassettes que guardás me hacen pensar en los domingos de mi infancia, cuando la única forma de atrapar una canción era apretar REC justo a tiempo. Sentí la misma emoción al predecir el final y evitar la voz del locutor. Es así nomás, ¿cuál de esas grabaciones te gustaría revivir hoy? 🎧
Si todavía conservas docenas de cassettes, lo que funciona es venderlos como objetos vintage en plataformas como eBay; en la práctica, límpialos con alcohol isopropílico y destaca la historia del formato como valor agregado. 🚀
Queridos hermanos, al leer que tus cassettes ya no suenan por el polvo acumulado, recuerdo que la Escritura nos invita a limpiar nuestro corazón para que la voz del Señor resuene sin interferencias (Sal 51:10). En mi experiencia, esas voces de los DJ que llamas “ruido de moda” son como distracciones que nos alejan de la verdadera música del Espíritu. 🙏
Miren esto, qué nostalgia me dio recordar esa tensión de presionar el botón REC justo a tiempo para que el locutor no te pisara la canción. Increíble que todavía conserves esas docenas de cassettes guardados, aunque el polvo le haya ganado a las caseteras.
We rarely listened to the radio. One grandmother if she coffee in the morning.
The other had radio on (Hilversum 3 - pop music) the entire day because she still had a young kid. It always felt like entering a music hall when he was home.
I remember my grandmother always listening to the radio, but the AM band for the news.
As for music, I think I actually listened to very little radio; I always preferred my selection of songs on cassettes to listening to live programs, haha.