I love cassettes so much.. wish I could take apart a cassette mechanism and build my own :/

(there are a lot of creative ways to make one smaller.. some even folded and then slide open to actually fit the cassette.. pretty sure it was a sony model. Another would only be as big as the cassette mainly just to cover the tape portion with the rest sticking out lol)

I do like that at least.. modern cassette tape players can record via usb (which is neat) but without a good record head or mechanism.. you'll get emf and wow/futter.

be neat to use digital buttons rather than utilizing the mechanical switches that take up space (however.. one would neat a controller in order to tell the motor to turn on/off, ff, or rewind ..

but that's a bit complex and would probably make it as big as regular modern cassette.. so idk ..

CDs are better in every regard (I just wish I could get more mini-CDs) :0