A different fic....

[conuly]

"He took the Walkman out of his pocket and flipped through the songs in the cassette."

Oh, sweetie. That's... that's just not how cassette tapes work. Not even overseas. You fast forward or rewind - literally winding the tape again - and hope that your timing is amazing. I mean, with practice I guess you can get pretty good, but still.

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Comments

[maju]

I'm 76 and I grew up with 78 rpm records, followed by faster LPS, EPs, and singles. With LPs and EPs you could choose where to place the needle of the record player between tracks if you didn't want to just play all the songs.

[glaurung]

Unless you were using an automatic record changer with a stack of records, in which case the stack of LP’s waiting to play next prevented you from seeing the gaps between the tracks on the record currently playing. But in general, yeah, you can absolutely pick which track to hear next if you’re willing to move the needle manually.