It's time to dust off that cassette deck and turn those precious cassette tapes into MP3s. Here's how. Donald Bell Senior Editor / How To Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior ...

Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic ...

The inventor of the CD and cassette tapes has passed away. Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Remember cassettes? They were, for many of us, our first opportunity to record sound and carry music around. Mixtape love letters, kids' violin lessons, early hip hop releases — cassettes were a cheap ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

Click to viewThe next time you have an afternoon free, dig out that old box of cassette tapes you squirreled away in the basement. It's time to resurrect your collection of Phil Collins albums, ...

Vinyl is experiencing a huge resurgence — we all know this. But a rising tide lifts all ships and it has actually spawned renewed interest in other old-school audio formats as well, including CDs and, ...

Move aside vinyl, another retro music format has spun back into the local spotlight. As emblematic to 1980s culture as the boom boxes and Sony Walkmans that played them, cassette tapes are back in ...

A version of this story first appeared in Gear Patrol Magazine. Subscribe today for more stories like this one, plus receive a $15 gift card to the Gear Patrol Store. Everything old is new again, and ...

On a mid-January morning in Springfield, Mo., a tractor-trailer backs up to the National Audio Company’s loading dock and unloads more than 600,000 empty compact cassette shells from factories in ...