Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine crackles for a moment before ...

Listened to by artisans as they work or at gatherings of Sufi music aficionados, cassette players hold sway in ...

Many people turn to the music for spiritual guidance, or seeking an escape from the region’s long periods of street battles, shutdowns and security clampdowns. For decades, cassette players have ...

Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz searches for a favorite cassette tape at his tailor shop in the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) ...

In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, a small, lightweight and belt-worn audio cassette player that let a person comfortably listen to music via headphones while walking or running. The progenitor ...

I've owned a half-dozen cassette players since falling into the hobby ... wanted to hear a digital version I'd just play it on Apple Music—but it's nice to have the option here.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty ... inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along ...

It turns out that all currently produced cassette players use the same mechanism with some small tweaks in materials (like metal flywheels in these higher quality models) because the engineering ...

These days, we take portable music consumption entirely for granted ... While not the first portable audio cassette player to hit the consumer market, the Walkman was the first major success ...

Starting to feel old? Don’t worry, all the trinkets of your youth have now become shells for MP3 players, the cassette tape included. [Britt] is aware you can pick up one of these cassette tape ...