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If you don’t know what a cassette is, you were probably born in the digital high-tech era, an era that is undoubtedly exciting and innovative. On the other hand, if you know what an audio cassette is, you belong to the older generation, the analog dinosaurs that know the painful connection between a pen and a cassette tape.
The invention of the compact cassette tape happened 50 years ago, so it’s time to celebrate:
“In 1962 Philips invented the compact audio cassette medium for audio storage, introducing it in Europe in August 1963 (at the Berlin Radio Show), and in the United States (under the Norelco brand) in November 1964, with the trademark name Compact Cassette.”
Since the old-fashioned cassette player is disappearing, we wanted to commemorate it by sharing an old school cassette player build with HTML5 audio with you. It’s just an experiment and the idea is to imitate the behavior of a vintage cassette tape (play, stop, rewind, fast forward and side switch) and use HTML5 audio. The magnetic tape inside should move as well accordingly. It’s far from being a perfect imitation of the classic cassette tape, it’s really just a fun experiment. You will probably find many bugs!
The beautiful cassette tape is by Mauricio Estrella and he shares his pixel-perfect PSD here:
Cassette – PSD File by Mauricio Estrella
The songs in the demo are by the highly talented Blue Ducks and Blank & Kytt:
The tape sound effects are from Pogotron’s sample on Freesound.org:
Tape Recorder.wav by Pogotron
For the volume control we used the great KnobKnob jQuery plugin by Martin Angelov.
The icon font that we use for the player controls are from the Font Awesome icon font by Dave Gandy and we’ve used Fontello for creating a custom set. The Font Awesome icon set is licensed under CC BY 3.0.
We really hope you enjoy this little time travel, turn your sound on and play with it and tell us if you got nostalgic π
Please note that this is highly experimental and for fun purpose only. There is no fallback for older browsers (irony!) and only super-funky disco moves are allowed! π
wonderful idea ! but somehow i deleted your music from /sounds insert my mp3Β΄s
also changed the line in casette.js
$.Cassette.defaults = {
songs : [ ‘track2’, ‘Track14’ ],
fallbackMessage : ‘HTML5 audio not supported’,
// initial sound volume
initialVolume : 0.7
};
but when i reload it is only “loading” doesnt start playing ..
The songs should be in /songs, not /sounds . Hope it helps. Cheers, ML
mary,
you leaving me speach less from article to article
and i have nothing to say anymore, except that you are fu……
genius !!!!
thanks
Amazing experiment. The interface is fantastic. Codrops is the most interesting development blog in the internet. Great work.
Awesome work guys! Happy to see KnobKnob getting used π
Mary Lou, you kick ass rock the web with your experiments. A deep bow for you.
Genial!!
That is so sweet – and probably only to us older crew that grew up with those painful lovable machines.
You just need to implement when they get jammed, chew your tape up and eject it to have a stream of mangled tape everywhere. Luv yr wk
It’s just so amazing, en un mot “GΓ©nial” , Marylou chapeau bas.
awesome like always mary lou
Love This !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow, cool..
Can add a Pause Button?
Stop button is Pause Button… I would change the button Image from Square to || π
Once again! AWESOME. awesome awesome awesome. What does it feel like to be on the forefront of web technology?
Hi MARY LOU…
the example is awesome. I’ve never imagine that something like this would be exist.
the audio works great. and cool switch, rewind and FF animation.
Actually I’m silent reader of tympanus.net. You guys always bring fresh article about web development.
But, do you guys can make some post about html5 audio player based on jQuery. But just a simple player.
I do know about jPlayer. But I have no idea to implement it to wordpress theme. (I know there is a jPlayer plugin, but i need to create built in audio player in my wordpress theme).
Thank you. π
awesome !! That’s super cool idea~~
i will call you”????”!!
Thank you all for your super-great feedback!! I’m so happy you like it!! xxx ML
@Mary Lou This is an awesome thing π Damn Cool !!!
It’s really deadly coooooool!
Thanks a lot for always sharing cool staffs!
Thanks so much for the awesome experiments! It really helps everyone starting out in the development community learn unique ways of creating interactive content. Keep up the awesome work!