Oh those old mix tapes! Cassettes vs CDs.

I go into my archives and check out some of my old mix Tapes I made in the late 1980s-2003.I noticed when I first started making them I only listed the song.Around 1994 I started listing the song and artist.Around 95 I started highlighting the artists and if I had room on the index card I wrote down names I credited to inspiring me to make that mixes and thanked anyone who lent me CDs.

  I sometimes listen to these tapes wondering what was i thinking at the time I made them and what mood i was in.Often Id get inspired after DJing school Dances with my friend Frank.He would often lend me new CDs he bought.

 The creative Process in making tapes was fun but long.If I got a mix finished in 2 days it was a miracle.Another thing about tapes is If I was in the middle of making a mix and Id be interrupted by phones calls knocks on the door etc I would have to stope the tapes,rewind it to the last song and go from there hoping my editing skills were on target.

Once in a while various interruptions would cause me to forget to write down a song on the mix and when I played it back Id realize I forgot to write it down and add a pS at the botton of the index card.

With CDs editing and trackilisting isnt an issue if you have a media player that print out the playlist.Most do these days.

CDs-If you have a scratch in the CD and it scips you wont hear it till you play it back.I keep pretty good care of my CDs but Ive run into this issue with music I get from the library etc.

Media players.Music match had the coolest cover art but once in a while would just print out various artist as the artist if your piece of music came from a compilation CD.

I've had pretty good experiances with itunes.If it misprints a name you can double click on it and correct it.

So theres my theory on Tapes V CDs.