Love in itself is a mixed tape....
When played you might not like all the songs, but you need to understand why they've been chosen for you.
Sometimes there will be long spaces of silence....just wait and it will sing again, or rewind it. It will make more sense the more you listen to it.
When the tape fails to play; it might not be broken, you just need to fix it. It takes a lot of care, and gentle hands but with patience it could be as good as new.
Don't replace your cassette tapes with CDs; they're just shiny lies that burn out and then you loose all the songs that matter.