OTape

every single product with a clearly llm generated landing page makes my skin crawl in a way i can't quite vocalize with words

> Playing a tape never changes the file. The player remembers your place separately, the way a real tape stays wound where you left it.

Um, I remember tapes and players working differently.

For example, playing a tape changed the tape's state. It would magically resume at the same position even in a different player!

Fun to embed m4a files that could just do this all by themselves?-)

I think the most disappointing thing about these is that you cannot quite record over them (over zip files) in real time, unless you arrange the particular m4a files to be wavs with e.g. PCM or A-law, or I suppose some more sophisticated but constant bitrate codec, and then also arrange that file to be uncompressed in the zip.. ? I doubt there are libraries to help make that happen?

At least if they were just plain mpeg4 containers, the reduced amount of indirection would make the problem a bit easier and could probably be manipulated with GPAC/MP4Box almost just as easily as zip files.

This seems poorly introduced. What is a "cassette"? What's the point of it all?

I shouldn't have to read the spec to figure out that it's like an epub, but for music (aac, with optional flac and wav support) instead of html. Along with some extra metadata features that mimic the experience of cassette players.

Erm, it's a wav file with extra steps?

What am I missing?

Edit: https://www.otape.org/spec/#73-codecs sorry, it's an mp4 audio file with extra steps...

Can I rewind these with a pen?

All I can say is amazing!

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