Ate My Tape

foomonkey525i

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I was on vacation last week, and the same 6 CDs in the changer got old after 20 hours of listening to them, so on the way home I used one of those electronic tape cassette things that hook into the headphone jack of an mp3 player or whatever.

Anyway, it was working great, then it randomly started switching back and forth between side 1 and side 2 on the tape. Or trying to, anway. It won't stop doing it and it won't eject, and I can't listen to any thing else except weather band with the tape in there.

Does anyone know how to get it to stop switching back and forth between sides and eject? Or why it started doing that in the first place?
 
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Big Daddy said:
Oh they are about 4 inches x 6 inches and called 8 tracks..oops I'm showing my age again. I think he meant the cassette tapes, personally I do not own any.
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Hehehe, I used to have tapes, but 70% of my life It's been all cd's.
 
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Big Daddy said:
Eric I am so old I had 78rpm records that you could hear the hiss sound of the needle...
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Hehe the only one's I've ever had (from before cd players were cheap enough for my parents to give me one for christmas) were i think 45rpm? records.
 
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Big Daddy said:
Oh they are about 4 inches x 6 inches and called 8 tracks..oops I'm showing my age again. I think he meant the cassette tapes, personally I do not own any.
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are you finally admitting that you are 60 now? geesh, took you long enough Dan. [:p]
 
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foomonkey525i

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Ok, so that didn't actually solve the problem. I got the tape out, but the stereo didn't work. You could hear the motor turning in there, but nothing was happening. My dad thought there may be a problem with the rubber band that turns the wheels. We took it out, and, low-and-behold, that was exactly the problem--it had fallen off one of the wheel. So we put it back in and blam-o: nothing working. You turned it on, and it just sat there, blank, then beeped really loudly. Then, on the way home, I turned it on. It was blank. It beeped. I turned it off. I turned it on. It worked. But the display is really really dim; so dim that you can't even see it in the daytime. Dad said that the car had this problem before, and it randomly fixed itself. Shwhatever. I've got tunes.

I'm not sure you all really cared about all that. The moral of the story is this: don't listen to tapes.
 
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