compact cassette

magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback
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compact cassette

Summary

compact cassette is a magnetic tape cassette format with side-by-side reels[1]. It draws 3,239 Wikipedia views per month (magnetic_tape_cassette_format_with_side_by_side_reels category, ranking #2 of 13).[2]

Key Facts

  • compact cassette is credited with the discovery of Lou Ottens[3].
  • compact cassette's instance of is recorded as magnetic tape cassette format with side-by-side reels[4].
  • compact cassette's instance of is recorded as open standard[5].
  • compact cassette's instance of is recorded as trademark[6].
  • compact cassette is a type of sound recording medium[7].
  • compact cassette is a type of magnetic tape recording[8].
  • compact cassette's Commons category is recorded as Compact Cassette[9].
  • compact cassette's Commons gallery is recorded as Compact Cassette[10].
  • compact cassette's described by source is recorded as Museum of Obsolete Media[11].
  • compact cassette's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/ontology/mo/MagneticTape[12].
  • compact cassette's equivalent class is recorded as http://bibliograph.net/CompactCassette[13].
  • compact cassette's different from is recorded as Mini-Cassette[14].
  • compact cassette's different from is recorded as K7[15].
  • compact cassette's different from is recorded as cassette tape[16].
  • compact cassette's has part is recorded as A-side[17].
  • compact cassette's has part is recorded as B-side[18].
  • compact cassette's has part is recorded as magnetic tape[19].
  • compact cassette's exact match is recorded as https://schema.org/CassetteFormat[20].
  • compact cassette's exact match is recorded as http://rs.tdwg.org/format/values/m057[21].

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Works and Contributions

compact cassette is credited with the discovery of Lou Ottens[3]. Things named for it include Cassette Scandal[22], a political scandal[23], in Ukraine[24].

Why It Matters

compact cassette draws 3,239 Wikipedia views per month (magnetic_tape_cassette_format_with_side_by_side_reels category, ranking #2 of 13).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 129 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Entities named for it include Cassette Scandal[22], a political scandal[23], in Ukraine[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . trademarks.ipo.gov.uk. trademarks.ipo.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Controlled Vocabulary for Dublin Core format. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of magnetic tape cassette format with side-by-side reels, open standard, trademark
    Aliases
    Different from Mini-Cassette, K7, cassette tape
    Described by source Museum of Obsolete Media
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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