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“cassette tape”
“musicassette” (MC)
“cassette tape”
“audio cassette”
“tape”
“cassette”
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*the compact cassette is an ‘analog magnetic tape recording format’ for ‘audio recording/playback’*
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(it was released by ‘philips’ in ‘1962’, having been developed in (‘hasselt’ / ‘belgium’))
(‘compact cassettes’ come in 2 forms, either already containing content as a pre-recorded cassette, or as a fully recordable “blank” cassette)
(it was designed originally for ‘dictation machines’, but improvements in ‘fidelity’ led the ‘compact cassette’ to supplant the ‘stereo 8-track cartridge’ and ‘reel-to-reel tape recording’ in most ‘non-professional applications’)
(its uses ranged from ‘portable audio’ to ‘home recording’ to ‘data storage’ for early ‘microcomputers’)
(the first ‘cassette player’ (although ‘mono’) designed for use in ‘car dashes’ was introduced in ‘1968’)
(between the ‘early 1970s’ and the ‘early 2000s’, the ‘cassette’ was 1 of the 2 most common ‘formats’ for ‘pre-recorded music’, first alongside the ‘LP record’ and later the ‘compact disc’ (CD))
(‘compact cassettes’ contain 2 ‘miniature spools’, between which a ‘magnetically coated’ + ‘polyester-type’ plastic film is ‘passed’ and ‘wound’)
(these ‘spools’ and their ‘attendant parts’ are held inside a ‘protective plastic shell’)
(2 ‘stereo pairs of tracks’ (4 total) or 2 ‘monaural audio tracks’ are available on the ‘tape’; ‘1 stereo pair’ or 1 ‘monophonic track’ is ‘played’ or ‘recorded’ when the ‘tape’ is moving in 1 direction and the 2nd (pair) when moving in the other direction)
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(this reversal is achieved either by ‘manually flipping’ the cassette, or by having the machine itself change the ‘direction’ of ‘tape movement’ and ‘head’ respectively (aka “auto-reverse”))
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