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Ottens died March 6 at 94, the Dutch electronic conglomerate Philips announced. His goal was simple: making tapes and their players far more portable and easier to use. Obituaries Music. Associated Press. Long before digital playlists and streaming, music aficionados lovingly crafted strings of songs, with a short pause between them, commonly called a mixtape. Placing a pencil inside the holes of a cassette tape, and slowly twisting the pencils to rescue the tape became an invaluable skill.
Eventually, Ottens was also involved in the invention of the more durable compact disc, CDs, in the s. So will I. Lou was an extraordinary man who loved technology, even as his inventions had humble beginnings.
During the development of the cassette tape, in the early s, he had a wooden block made that fit exactly in his coat pocket. This was how big the first Compact Cassette was to be, making it a lot handier than the bulky tape recorders in use at the time. His invention came to be known as the Cassette Tape and over billion were sold globally. It also allowed people to quickly record audio and helped capture some of the most iconic songs. I looked at it in the morning — I knew I had put a new tape in the night before — but it was at the very end.
Ottens, who died on Saturday, had little patience with the renewed popularity of the cassette tape — or even vinyl. That never worked with tape … I have made a lot of record players and I know that the distortion with vinyl is much higher.
I think people mainly hear what they want to hear. This article is more than 7 months old. Dutch engineer was also instrumental in development of first CD in his work at Philips. Lou Ottens twice revolutionised the world of music.
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