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Re: Apple stuff again. Also, cassettes
09/13/18 01:56 PM
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> > Makes me wonder if somebody has ever tried to capture the full magnetic field of
> > cassettes...
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> For what purpose though?
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> Maybe I'm missing something but why would you want to do that when you can just
> record whatever is on the tape?
For one, it would be (finally) a non-split perfect representation of the cassette's contents. Right now, every cassette recording is split into tracks and wildly varies depending on things like the quality of the cassette player, the azimuth adjustment and, on top of this, each dumper's personal preferences (different volume levels, recording as Mono instead of Stereo, different sample/bit rates, etc). Think of it as dumping a CD as a "good enough" ISO+MP3 versus a proper BIN+CUE(+SUB), with TAP/TZX/CDT files being the equivalent of dumping it by copying and pasting all the CD files into a folder.
Just one file would cover both sides and as many tracks as needed.
In the case of regular audio tapes, it would also allow for emulating azimuth and volume adjusting. Hardly exciting and sometimes inconvenient, maybe, but it was a thing back in the day...
Also, it occurs to me that such format may be useful for detecting any defects in the magnetic field and maybe even create a "master" image out of it by combining a few dumps of the same tape. But that's just wishful thinking.
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