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Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in the form of a cassette tape; Digital Audio Tape (or DAT), a digital audio cassette tape format, mainly used by professionals; Digital Compact Cassette (or DCC), a short-lived digital audio cassette format aimed at domestic users; Videocassette, a cassette containing videotape, for use in VCRs
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.
The phrase cassette tape is ambiguous in that there is no common dictionary definition [1] [2] [3] so depending upon usage it has many different meanings, as for example any one the one of 106 different types of audio cassettes, [4] video cassettes [5] or data cassettes [6] listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media.
Digital audio cassette formats introduced to the professional audio and consumer markets: Digital Audio Tape (or DAT) is the most well-known, and had some success as an audio storage format among professionals and "prosumers" before the prices of hard drive and solid-state flash memory -based digital recording devices dropped in the late 1990s.
The IEC reference tape bias definition is: Using the relevant IEC reference tape and heads according to Ref. 1.1, the bias current providing the minimum third harmonic distortion ratio for a 1 kHz signal recorded at the reference level is the reference bias setting.
“Cassette culture” is an international music scene that developed in the wake of punk in the second half of the 1970s and continued through into the first half of the 1980s (the "postpunk" period), and in some territories into the 1990s, in which a large number of amateur musicians outside the established music industry, usually recording in their homes and usually recording to cassette ...
A relatively modern cassette single (by T.A.T.u.) in an O case packaging. This single is sold only in the O case and does not have an insert. Originally, most cassette singles were released in a thick paper sleeve that slipped over the outside of the cassette, called an O case or an O-card. This was then usually shrink wrapped in cellophane ...
Cassette equipment needs regular maintenance, as cassette tape is a magnetic medium that is in physical contact with the tape head and other metallic parts of the recorder/player mechanism. Without such maintenance, the high-frequency response of the cassette equipment will suffer.