Web Cassettes mixtapes are back.
A web cassette is a whole cassette in a single file. Send it to anyone and it plays on their phone, tablet or computer, reels turning, hiss and all. No app, no account and no sign-up, just press play.
A cassette you can send down the wire
Remember the joy of a mixtape? Someone chose every song for us, wrote the label by hand and pressed it into our palm. Web cassettes bring that feeling back. Each one is a single file with the sound, the label, the cover and the track list all packed inside, ready to travel by chat, email or cloud link.
It feels like a real cassette
Reels that turn, a counter that ticks, hiss that comes and goes, and REW, FF, PAUSE and FLIP buttons that do what they always did.
It wears its own cover
A handwritten label, a shell colour, cover art and a J-card with the track list. Listeners can tap a track and jump straight to it.
It can be recorded on
Send a cassette to a friend and they can record their reply onto it and send it back. Snap off the write protect tab to keep it as it is.
It plays anywhere
Phones, tablets, laptops and desktops. If it has a web browser, it plays web cassettes, with nothing to install first.
From microphone to mailbox in four steps
Press REC
Open the recorder on a phone or a computer, and talk, sing or play into the microphone.
Write the label
Give it a title, pick a shell and a label style, and add a cover picture.
Press EXPORT
Out comes a web cassette: one file, ready to send by any chat app, email or cloud drive.
They press PLAY
It opens in their browser, shows its cover, and plays. Nothing is uploaded anywhere along the way.
Made for every screen
A voice letter for a grandparent, a birthday mix for a best friend, a bedtime story, a band's demo, a guided meditation or a podcast episode. Whatever goes on a web cassette arrives looking and sounding just the way it was made, on whatever device opens it.
The player comes in skins too, from a pocket player to a 70s hi-fi, a jungle, outer space and a full-blown psychedelic trip.
Web Cassette Studio for Windows
The recorder is the pocket version. The Studio is the whole cassette deck rack on the desktop: an album, a podcast series or an epic mixtape, recorded, imported, edited, labelled and sent out as web cassettes. It is free to download, and one key unlocks the full studio with as many decks as the desk will hold, an effects rack and a cassette web site of our own.
An album on a web cassette is a release fans can hold onto: cover art, a track list, liner notes and that first-play thrill, sent by link or dropped onto our own web site. It makes a fun way to share a demo, launch an EP or say thank you to the people who come to the gigs.
Want it in our own colours? Web Cassettes grow with the people who use them, and Ram can talk through branding such as a personalised player skin for a band's own site. Get in touch.
Somebody out there would love a cassette from us
Thirty seconds is enough. Say hello, hum a tune, read a poem, and send it.
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