If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you had a collection of cassette tapes. Remember those? The media format, about the size of a large stack of credit cards, was the primary way we listened to ...

A couple of decades ago, cassettes were everywhere. Most cars came with cassette players, though this is a car feature you don't see anymore because cassettes were soon replaced by CDs. As a more ...

At my house, we believe in analog, and lately the whole family has been rediscovering the humble cassette tape, thanks to a refurbished 1990s-era dual cassette deck. We’ve been putting some old ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Everything old eventually becomes new again, and there's probably no better example of that than the humble cassette tape. The format was ...

Don’t have a copy of Pink Floyd’s iconic Dark Side of the Moon in your collection? Or, even if you do, then here’s something different: An exclusive version of the album on cassette and a branded ...

Japanese consumer electronics company Maxell, known for its high-performance chromium metal cassettes during its 80s zenith, has now released a modern update to the portable cassette player. This ...

One of the more interesting things about technology is that as new advancements are made, people simultaneously become more interested in long-forgotten technologies from the past. This is ...

Modern music services are all about convenience, but sometimes having every album ever at the touch of your fingertips leaves you with choice paralysis. If you’d rather bump your next mixtape or ...

Good ideas rarely go out of fashion… except for those boombox cassette players that we used to carry around in the 1980s. They disappeared along with leg warmers and shoulder pads and were eclipsed by ...

In a new take on a technology from the 1960s, this year, researchers created a cassette tape that uses DNA instead of iron oxide to encode information on a plastic tape. It can hold a phenomenal ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient, and relatively low-quality in terms of sound quality — ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient and relatively low-quality in the sound they produce – ...