Cassettes and cassette players remained popular until the 1990s when CDs became the dominant format for distributing music.Ĭassette players generally contain a hatch to load the cassette and two spindles inside that stick through the holes in the cassette. In 1979, Sony introduced the wildly successful Walkman, a small cassette player used with headphones.

Further cassette players could be found as part of a stationary stereo system in the home or in a portable boombox with built-in speakers.

Phillips introduced the E元300 in 1963 as the first cassette player on the market. The tape has a thin layer of metal on it which is magnetized during recording to encode the audio signals ( more info here).Ī cassette player is a device that can read music from a compact cassette and (optionally) record new material onto the tape for your sweet mixtape. The compact cassette replaced older magnetic tape standards such as the 8-track and reel-to-reel, but all these formats used the same basic principles for recording using magnets. Compact cassettes rose to popularity in the 1970s and 80s as they provided a simple way to play music and were more portable than vinyl LPs. The compact cassette is a magnetic storage medium created by Philips in September 1963.

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