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DoctorDoodle19

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Are Cassettes allowed here?
« on: March 19, 2026, 02:54:29 AM »
As a Japanese music library collector, if it's rare, I'll take it.
I honestly don't care about the transcoded stuff (NO OFFENSE BWP!!) or lossy audio, if it is rare, I will take it.
So, when I reached out to a Japanese friend of mine (who also has a youtube channel with beautiful videos of cherry blossoms!) about his Teichiku BGM collection, he said he had volumes 16 - 25 on cassette. If you're not familiar with Teichiku BGM, volumes 16 and 19 are supposedly the two rarest albums in this series. I don't know anyone on this forum who owns those two.
So when my friend told me he'd do it, I accepted it.
In a few songs, the audio skips a little, but other than that, the cassette quality is pretty usual. I had him convert to WAV too, because that's what I like.
Since they're so rare, and it's a collection of 10 albums and 100 jam based and ambient tracks of all kind. I love these albums, and I'd love to share them with everyone.
But do people actually like cassette rips?
I'd love to know, as well as a moderator's viewpoint.
Thank you all!
Also, if you're following my website (you can visit it in the link below), I added a bunch of Studio Cutz albums you probably don't have to the USA section (yes, I actually did something to the USA section, you happy now!?), and most of them are from Retromatic! Huge thanks to Craig-UK for those! I also added some new stuff to the Japan section. Reminder that you can also download my own music library albums for free!!
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Greta

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Re: Are Cassettes allowed here?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2026, 10:11:29 AM »
Audio is audio, it's music. No matter what the original media was. Vinyls, cassettes, cd's, reel-to-reel tapes or else.
Then, if we discuss about quality, is a different story. Everyone has personal tastes and points of view, but a share is always welcome and appreciated.
« Last Edit: March 19, 2026, 03:04:41 PM by Greta »
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DoctorDoodle19

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Re: Are Cassettes allowed here?
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2026, 11:13:25 AM »
Ok, thank you so much!
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Re: Are Cassettes allowed here?
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2026, 06:18:55 PM »
It's of course welcome - as Greta said, audio is audio! :)

Cassettes are a very, very uncommon format in our niche of music, however, which is why you don't see it a lot here.

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Re: Are Cassettes allowed here?
« Reply #4 on: Today at 02:48:49 AM »
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jam based and ambient tracks of all kind.

That sounds right up my alley! Please do share what you can, I'd love to hear more library music from Japan.

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Re: Are Cassettes allowed here?
« Reply #5 on: Today at 02:53:38 AM »
Yesss!
I'm working on a plan for uploading it, the CD versions have track titles but the cassettes are the same songs but codes, so I have to rename each one.
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Re: Are Cassettes allowed here?
« Reply #6 on: Today at 05:19:59 AM »
Yesss!
I'm working on a plan for uploading it, the CD versions have track titles but the cassettes are the same songs but codes, so I have to rename each one.

Nice! Any technical specifications about the tapes and how you ripped them would be welcome in your upcoming posts, too.  :)

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« Reply #7 on: Today at 11:17:22 AM »
Got it!
I don’t know much about the tapes though, because I didn’t rip them, a friend of mine in Japan did. But I’ll try my best!
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