Patterns of Music Consumption (re format)

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Does everyone in the world listen mainly to CDs now, or are cassettes the medium of choice in non-Western countries?

― Bayonet Bulb, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In India cassettes remain the preferred medium, mainly due to the price differential.

― Atul, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually, in New Zilun' we mostly have wax cylinders. and maybe 78s on a horse-drawn grammophone...

i think tapes are obsolete here, apart from cassingles. however i did see crap local act Stellar*'s new album on tape at Dunedin's Disk Den. that place is the music store that time and good taste forgot!

― petra jane, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In Egypt it's the tape. Only the taxi drivers seemed to have CD's hung up in their cars as some kind of status symbol. I'm guessing this is true for vast swathes of africa as well.

― Bill, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah well, India was always behind. In 1966 they still had 78 rpm singles (cf the famous ultra-valuable 78 of the Beatles' "Paperback Writer").

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're caught between digital and vinyl
I'm still waiting for the cassingle revival.

― emil.y, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Robin: I was under the impression that some black labels in the US were still releasing 78s in '61 and '62. Is that true?

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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