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There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the ...
Classic cassette tapes may not be as trendy as vinyl or even CDs but they’re still making some noise. According to recent reports, sales of the analog audio format have increased each of the last ten ...
Steve Stepp says they crank out about 30 million cassette tapes a year, making National Audio Company one of the largest cassette tape manufacturers in the world. For NPR News, I'm Suzanne Hogan ...
Back-to-the-future adventurers can tape their LPs, and take pure analog sound on the road with an old Sony Walkman cassette player, or buy a brand new portable player. If you're up for it, go ...
The plant also makes tapes for Nirvana, Keith Richards, Judas Priest, Ice Cube and Weezer, among others. It made 25,000 cassettes for the recent release of a seven-song demo Metallica recorded in ...
Cassette tapes are making a comeback. But it’s about the culture, not the sound. Sales of cassette music tapes climbed 23% in the U.S. last year. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) ...
Yet cassette tapes are having a moment. According to Luminate, an entertainment industry data collector, U.S. tape sales increased by more than 440 percent between 2015 and 2022.
It's time to dust off that cassette deck and turn those precious cassette tapes into MP3s. Here's how. Donald Bell Senior Editor / How To Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET ...
Old cassette tapes are stacked on shelves at Mohammad Ashraf Matoo’s cassette tape player repair shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) ...