Talk:Cassette tape

Orange, Torah Tape

If this sequnce of edits is successful, the article's Orange Hat/Hatenote (i.e. to not scare away readers).will be resolved, and it will also house a bit about the topic Torah Tape. Nuts240 (talk) 13:41, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Orange, Torah Tape

If this sequnce of edits is successful, the article's Orange Hat/Hatenote (i.e. to not scare away readers).will be resolved, and it will also house a bit about the topic Torah Tape. Nuts240 (talk) 19:44, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

The added material is clearly inappropriate for this article which does not have a single instance of any other type of recording content. If Torah Tape is worthy of its own article, that should be discussed but not here. Accordingly, I am deleting the section. Tom94022 (talk) 05:48, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

@Nuts240: please discuss why this should be in the article rather than simply reinstalling! Tom94022 (talk) 02:17, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Longevity

In the flaws section, a longevity of up to 30 years is cited, based on old research. Recent data suggests it to be closer to 100 years: https://www.clir.org/2022/08/study-reveals-new-findings-on-longevity-of-legacy-magnetic-audio-tape/ Mind Booster Noori (talk) 03:27, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

As the study notes, its conclusions about open real audio tape may not be applicable to other later formats like Cassette tape and certainly not to later non-iron oxide formulations. Tom94022 (talk) 07:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Speed, wow, fluter but the basics are missing.

This article should take care to explain how casette players / recorders keep constant linear tape speed? Since the diameter of providing (unpowered) and receiving (powered) spools change constantly and their diameters are unknown, due to existence of 15 to 120 and even 180 minute casettes, the process seems far from trivial. Logically, the middle line of the tape which separates left and right sides, should be free of metal oxide and be just transparent plastic carrier, onto which a stroboscopic pattern would be printed at factory - allowing decks to control linear speed exactly via optical sensor. However that's not the case, probably due to cost reasons, so what's the solution? 94.21.229.15 (talk) 14:56, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

What makes you think cassette tape recorders bothered to keep constant linear speed? The ultra compact pocket dictation machines just dragged the tape through willy-nilly, relying on playback on a similar machine to keep the voice recording intelligible. But you are right, we should describe somewhere how a capstan drive works - the pinch roller system drags tape off the reel at a constant speed, and the drive and takeup spools just provide enough tension to take up the slack...must find a good simple description because I don't understand it well enough to write an article section on it. --Wtshymanski (talk) 05:41, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Hurray! Someone has already written tape transport which explains all this in detail. See-also reference in a minute or two. --Wtshymanski (talk) 05:44, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Constant linear speed is not specific to Compact Cassette transports, but to all tape recorders. It is true that the lowest-end reel-to-reel machines did without it, but anything better had to have linear speed. Enter the capstan and pressure roller combo, as early as the first Magnetophones. Retired electrician (talk) 06:34, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Where does Torah Tape belong as a section of a general article

@Tom94022:@PrimeHunter:I agree with the statement given in response to my HelpDesk question "doesn't sound like a topic for a whole article" yet that doesn't mean that it should not exist at all on Wiki. Although AudioBook was mentioned in the HelpDesk response, the word "Tape" in 'Torah Tape' makes it seem that, wihout any form of edit-war or unfriendly wordings, I/M/H.O. the placement near Culture seemed like a good place. I was in the process of expanding the WikiText, since it's not just Boro Park or even Brooklyn that housed these libraries.

If you don't mind the O.R. In the singular, it's an old fashioned tape with Jewish religious content. Entire libraries of these, often loaned to non-paying "members" and one particular such library, located in Manhattan, outgrew their assigned space, loaded with filing cabinets of tapes, on the 4th floor of a 6 story Jewish organization which has since sold their building, having in other ways also needing more space. Today the term would probably be a wiki redirect to an article that includes web sites of recordings of speakers, delivered to a live audience and recorded. A well-attended Brooklyn-based Talmud class given by the son is recorded by his father, who handles "uploading."

Some of this is probably my fault, but quite a few of the stubs I've begun, once draftified for lack of followup, have gone stale, so I was a little hesitant to tackle this topic. Rabbi Avigdor Miller encuouraged recording of his packed Thursday night talks, and today copies of physical tapes are still sold/bought, though not the volumes of a decade ago. Nuts240 (talk) 05:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Why don't you place it into the Cassette culture section of this article, as one paragraph, following the paragraph on Khomenini and the Iranian revolution? Seems to fit therein. Tom94022 (talk) 17:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Sound recording and reproduction

This article is on the technology of the medium itself. That would be up through the production and sale of blank tape. More generally, there is Sound recording and reproduction in the variety of sound recording media. It would seem that there could be an article on the production and sale of prerecorded audio media, including prerecorded cassette tapes. In a quick search, I didn't find one. I will try discussion in talk:Genre, which seems at least a little related. Gah4 (talk) 12:32, 18 June 2024 (UTC)