oTAPE is an open file format for digital cassettes. One .otape file holds a whole tape: two sides of fixed length, each one continuous recording, plus the label, the J-card and the record tabs. It's self-contained and works offline.
Drawn in your browser from a few lines of appearance JSON. The reels follow the spec's tape-pack model.
Making a mixtape used to take an evening. You picked every song, sat through the recording and wrote the titles by hand. oTAPE is a file format that keeps those constraints. It isn't a new codec or a music player: it describes a whole cassette.
Each side is one continuous take. The silence between songs, a spoken intro, the clunk of the pause button: it's all part of the recording. Track markers can name the songs without splitting the side.
