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

[glaurung]

Pedant note: tape players had little 3 digit counters on them, specifically so you could note the position of each song on the tape (and its duration) in counter digits, allowing you to fast forward/rewind to a specific song on the tape by keeping track of the numbers on the counter. No one I knew did this, but that is what the counter was for.

[hudebnik]

Technically, yes, as long as you remember to rewind the tape to the beginning and reset the counter to 000 before you start. And I don't remember whether our first Walkman had a tape counter.