Web Cassette Studio

Remember making a mixtape? Choosing the songs, timing the gaps, writing the label by hand and handing it over to a friend. Web Cassette Studio brings all of that to the desktop. We record or import our sounds onto a cassette, give it a label and cover art, and send it out as a web cassette: a single file that plays in any browser, with nothing to install. A podcast, an album, a guided meditation, a voice letter or a birthday mix, all on a cassette that clicks, hisses and rewinds like the real thing.

Web Cassette Studio with two decks, one playing and one recording, and the input and import units below
Two decks in the full version, one playing and one recording.

Download it free

Web Cassette Studio, free version

DOWNLOAD FREE

Build 36 Juza-II, 12 November 2026. A 34.3 MB zip. Windows 10 and 11.

  • A deck of its own. One deck that records, imports and plays.
  • Record anything. A microphone, a line input, a USB interface, or whatever the computer is playing.
  • Import in seconds. WAV, MP3, FLAC and OGG go onto a cassette far faster than real time, and the tracklist writes itself.
  • Real cassette sound. C5 to C90 in Types I, II and III, each with its own character, plus six kinds of noise reduction. The recording underneath always stays clean.
  • Edit like a studio. Drop bookmarks mid-take, then swap, move, cut and copy parts, add silence, and undo.
  • Cover art in a click. J-cards with endless generated patterns or any picture, with fonts, a spine and the track list.
  • Clickable tracks. Timed tracks let listeners jump straight to the song they want.
  • Labels with personality. A title and a subtitle, shell colours, label styles and three kinds of handwriting.
  • A shelf for the collection. Every cassette as a cover or a cassette, sorted and tagged.
  • One button to share. A web cassette plays in any browser, five times smaller with compression, in the skin of the maker's choice.
  • The maker's rules. Choose whether others may remix it, and attach a licence.

One program for everyone. It is free to use for as long as you like, and a licence key unlocks the full version in the same copy, with nothing else to download.

The full version

Β£12 one payment, no subscription
  • As many decks as the desk will hold.
  • Dub and mix. High speed dubbing from deck to deck, and CUE START to roll several decks the moment REC goes down.
  • An effects rack. Reverb from a small room to a cathedral, echo, dusty record, old radio, worn cassette, chorus, warmth, lo-fi, fades and more, all previewed before they go on.
  • Longer cassettes. C120, C240 and C480, plus FLEX cassettes that grow as the recording does, up to four hours a side, and SHRINK TO FIT makes any cassette as small as it can be.
  • Typewriter and Block print lettering for the label.
  • Type IV metal. The brightest, cleanest cassette of all.
  • A cassette web site. A step-by-step set-up puts a player and a cassette library on any web server.
  • Publish with a link. Share links show the cover and title in chat apps and on social media, and SYNC keeps every copy up to date.
  • Ramapani skins for the player on that site.
  • Full-size covers ready for shops and streaming services.
  • The 70s Chrome look. Dress the whole studio in brushed aluminium and walnut, with piano-key controls, glowing blue displays and amber-lit needle meters.
BUY A LICENCE KEY FREE VERSION WITH UPDATE EMAILS

Your key arrives by email straight away. In the Studio, press ENTER KEY, paste it in, and the Studio restarts as the full version. Your key works on three computers at a time, and REMOVE KEY on the ABOUT page frees one up. The free version is in the Ramapani shop too: get it there and you receive an email whenever a new build is ready.

Starting it for the first time

There is nothing to install. We unzip the download, put WebCassetteStudio.exe somewhere handy, and double-click it.

Ramapani is one person, and the Studio is not signed with a paid certificate, so Windows does not know its name yet. The first time it starts, Windows may show a blue box saying "Windows protected your PC".

  1. Click More info.
  2. Check that the app is WebCassetteStudio.exe.
  3. Click Run anyway. Windows remembers this for that copy.
Smart App Control. Some Windows 11 computers have Smart App Control switched on (Windows Security, App & browser control). It blocks every unsigned program and offers no "Run anyway", so the Studio will not start on your computer while it is on. Switching it off lowers your computer's protection, and that decision is yours to make.

Checking the download

To be sure your copy is exactly the one Ramapani built, compare its SHA-256 fingerprint with the one here. In PowerShell: Get-FileHash .\WebCassetteStudio.exe

WebCassetteStudio.exe  7E0462E978EB964791D29A530420378AAD06931E20EBCD809EBB873CD1FD6CD4

WebCassetteStudio.zip  05A34E81ABC0C89F5B8E02A16499B0B50243A6FB1C40107B3BEE26FACAE680B7

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Privacy Notice

The Studio works on your own computer. Your recordings, covers and notes stay there until you choose to export, publish or send them. It contacts ramapani.com for two things only. When you enter a licence key, and now and then afterwards, it sends your key and your computer's Windows machine ID, so that one key unlocks a limited number of computers. It also fetches news for its MESSAGES tab. When you buy a key, that happens on Payhip, under Payhip's own privacy policy.

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