Christopher Wenn has received funding from a City of Hume COVID-19 Arts Activation Grant in 2020. That’s a great question. To answer it very briefly, music is recorded onto a cassette tape using ...

In an era of music streaming and digital downloads, an old format is once again becoming popular. Modern music audiences are rewinding and hitting play on a cassette tape revival. Stephanie Sy reports ...

Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, and we are creating data faster than we can store it. Fortunately, we don't ...

Holding 100 metres of the DNA tape, the cassette is able to hold 36 petabytes of data – equivalent to 36,000 terabyte hard ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

Spotify and Apple Music might be more convenient, but nothing quite beats the nostalgia of cassette tapes. According to the Nielsen Media Research Music Year-End Report for 2017, sales of cassette ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. You can still walk into music stores in Japan and see albums released on cassettes. I'm not sure which is more amazing: Being able to walk into a ...

If you own an iPhone or iPod touch and have a collection of music on cassette tape, this just might be the gadget of your dreams. ION's Tape Dock allows you to take your favorite cassette tapes and ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

It turns out there’s a place for archaic physical media of questionable audio fidelity–even in the Spotify era. For Andy Molholt, there’s something oddly special about hitting play on his boombox at ...

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created ...

In an era of music streaming and digital downloads, an old format is once again becoming popular. Modern music audiences are rewinding and hitting play on a cassette tape revival. Stephanie Sy reports ...