The cassette was put to good use in the 1970s to make bootleg recordings of live concerts. A guy who made some of the best named Mike Millard even has a wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]. He used a Nakamichi 550 deck with an AKG microphone and hid it in a wheelchair. And it sounded pretty damn good.
It can still used for the bootleg recordings that were transferred to the Shorten (SHN) lossless format. Though I guess by now most have been losslessly converted to flac. https://www.mediamonkey.com/ad... [mediamonkey.com]
Footnote to cassette history (Score:3)
The .SHN plug-in for Winamp (Score:2)