SPOT-ify!

Me: Just going back to the post about Spotify and Tapes (Audio Cassettes!). I have a question to ponder about!!! 🤔🤔🤔 I haven’t searched it on the Internet. But, I somehow think it is related to the way secondary storages in Computer Hardware are accessed. For example, CDs have data on only one side, where as DVDs have data on both sides (top side and bottom side). Apparently, this is what I have heard (back in 1999 in Chennai, India)!😁

Me: As you all may remember, in audio cassettes, you listen to the songs 🎶 on one side of the cassette and flip it around and start listening to songs on the other side of the cassette. Even if you flip around the cassette, what is getting exposed is the top side of the tape and not the bottom side!😁 It is very evident in Gramophone discs, you flip the disc around, it is accessing the bottom vs top side of the disc. But, not sure how it works in audio cassettes. Don’t ask me whether I know whether songs are digitally encoded or encoded in analog format in audio cassettes!? 🤔 I guess.. still digitally encoded!👍 Are there tracks and sectors in Audio cassette tapes!?🤔 Hopefully, not!!! 😁 Tracks and Sectors may apply to only circular discs!👍

Siva: Good question... never occurred to me all these years !!

Siva: Googled, yes the tape has 4 tracks.. 2 for side A and 2 for side B

Siva: Encoding, is analog, magnetic