Digital music players and smartphones pretty much caused an extinction event for portable analog audio. But RecordingTheMasters is banking on a comeback for tapes with the launch of Mystik portable ...

Though digital music accounts for much of what we now listen to, old school formats like vinyl and audio cassettes steadfastly refuse to disappear. The former is enjoying something of a healthy ...

A 1/8" inch, analog audio tape format that was widely used for music distribution and home recording. In the past, millions of pre-recorded and blank cassettes were sold each year; however, sales ...

Lou Ottens, who brought joy to many music lovers with his invention of the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94. Ottens started working for the Phillips electronic manufacturing company in ...

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in Duizel, the ...

During its heyday, the audio cassette was easy to take for granted. It was cheap, portable and simple to duplicate but, unlike a vinyl album, never a thing of beauty. It always seemed so disposable, ...