Should be possible to store digital music on cassettes as well just like you would with a tape backup. Would probably increase both the quality and storage capacity of cassettes.

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jasonjayr 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-which-settings-s...

According to that article, it looks like the best cassettes (if everything goes right) could have a bandwidth of 20kHz. So a quick calculation of 8bit samples: (20000 * 8) / 1024 == about 156kB/s bitrate. If i did my math correctly, a 90 minute cassette could keep 824 MB (raw)

The article suggests that they struggle to sustain 20kHz, and I assumed you could keep 8 bits per sample cleanly, but the actual data size would probably be much smaller than that. Keep in mind, besides the mechanical wear and tear, seeking in the digital data would be tricky, the data stream would have to lose some of that raw data size for framing + synchronization marks.

	▲	nottorp a day ago \| parent [-]
		What I'm saying has nothing to do with modern DATs of course but iirc the zx spectrum tapes were like 10 kb per minute... They did have to work with any crap tape recorder and the interface circuitry wasn't much.

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nickt 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Like DCC (1992)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette