@cypnk None of these would be all that long, even, would they? I wonder how long you could make it without doing something like 8-track or how ink ribbons worked.
@Felthry I would guess most are less than 30 seconds. So theses examples would be used in something like short announcements , even short snippet elevator music, or maybe older answering machines
@cypnk I wonder if some fancy devices might have run multiple tracks on the tape... but then you'd need some way to detect when to switch tracks
@cypnk Right--what I'm saying is that if you wanted to use multiple tracks on the tape in order to increase the length of a loop, you would have to know when to switch tracks.
@Felthry I don't think cassettes had something like that since they had definite starts and stops. As for loops, the whole reason for having an "infinite-loop" is that there are no endings
Tascam made tape decks to time your loop in mixers, I think, but that was a player determined setup. There was no marker on the tape itself