15 Facts About Compact cassette

Compact Cassette or Musicassette, commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

Philips' Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Sony pressuring Philips to license the format to them free of charge.

The Compact Cassette went on to become a popular alternative to the 12-inch vinyl LP during the late 1970s.

The Compact cassette's popularity grew during these years as a result of being a more effective, convenient and portable way of listening to music.

Total vinyl record sales remained higher well into the 1980s due to greater sales of singles, although Compact cassette singles achieved popularity for a period in the 1990s.

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Between 1985 and 1992, the Compact cassette tape was the most popular format in the UK and record labels experimented with innovative packaging designs.

One of the most famous political uses of Compact cassette tapes was the dissemination of sermons by the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini throughout Iran before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, in which Khomeini urged the overthrow of the regime of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Some pirate Compact cassette producers created brands such as Cumbre y Cuatro that have in retrospect received praise for their contributions to popular music.

In 2016, Compact cassette sales increased, a trend that continued in 2017 and 2018.

The first CrO2 Compact cassette was introduced in 1970 by Advent, and later strongly backed by BASF, the inventor and longtime manufacturer of magnetic recording tape.

Simple voice recorders and earlier Compact cassette decks are designed to work with standard ferric formulations.

For instance, the initial maximum playback time of Compact Discs was 74 minutes, explaining the relative popularity of C74 cassettes.

The Compact cassette soon became a popular medium for distributing prerecorded music—initially through the Philips Record Company .

However, IBM Compact cassette tape was seldom used, as by 1981 floppy drives had become commonplace in high-end machines.

MicroCompact cassette largely supplanted the full-sized Compact cassette in situations where voice-level fidelity is all that is required, such as in dictation machines and answering machines.