This is a cassette player for albums.
While you listen to a album, blank time is part of it. This is the concept.
This app divides the album into side A and B, and adds blank time on each end.
I have reproduced experiences of listening cassette tapes. For example, changing rotation speed of reels based on tape amount, animation of wrapping end of tape to reels, player with counter and auto reversing, sound of operation, song list like cassette index cards, lettering album title.
Would you listen to albums like you did in old days?


What you can do
You can strain to hear before the first song starts.
On skip operation, The tape may run over the position you want to set at.
You can skip efficiently with referring the counter.
If difference occur in counter, you have to back to top of side A and push the reset button.(*)
While you see song list, you can realize which order the current song is in side, and connections to previous or next song.
You can switch a song experimentally by pressing the button to play the other side.
If you don’t know a current song name, you can infer which song is playing from amount of tape on each reels.
You can look at tape that seem to be about to end but doesn’t readily end.
The sound of changing side makes you feel renewing and expectations of a new side.
You have to push the start button again, If auto reverse doesn’t work as setting.
With albums released in CD, you can bother which boundary separates it into A and B.
You can verify changing speed of rotation while fwd or rev processes.
You can be deep in lingering of the album with reels rounding after the last song played.
The mechanical sound at end of tape makes you feel a sense of achievement and a little missing.

(*)The ways that avoid time and trouble are included.


How to use
Select the album and play it.


Features
The album is divided into two sides automatically.
If a result of auto dividing is not desirable, songs can be transferred by operation.
Auto reverse(none, A to B only, both ways).
A Length of tape is selected automatically to fit for a album.
Index cards represent song informations as cassette tapes do.
Selecting a album at random If you do with “random” button.
Index card colors are sourced from album artworks.
Album title lettering which is like a printing sheet you scrub on.


Caution
This app imports music included in the device as a album. Cloud sources didn’t be selected.
The button drawn right direction on the player is assigned playing side A. Left direction is side B.
Auto dividing executes as even as possible. A result of dividing may differ from actual dividing of a album.
You can’t change song order.
This app plays songs with using iPod function on iOS. Another app using it as same may courses problems.
Playing time is one minute longer than displayed time.(In case of 46minutes tape, each side has 23+1=24minutes)
Lengths of tapes are about 10 kinds as actual. Albums having over 120 minutes songs are added a few blank minutes.
After you change song division, length of tape change to fit time.
This app uses year data set in a song. If set year is new and actual year is old, it is treated as a new one.
when a album you played once is selected, it is set previous position. But you can’t know which side played.
Sound effects like tapes(hiss noise, warm high frequency) don't be installed.


About playing in background
You can listen to music behind another app by two ways.
1 : Close this app by pushing the home button(as you usually do) - it plays songs in the current side only.
2 : Before you close this app, change to BGM mode - it plays blank time after a last song, plays machine sound at end of side, obeys setting of auto reverse. To change to BGM mode, you tap the button(drawn browser and musical notes) in bottom while playing a song. In case of setting that auto reverse is endless, it plays whole songs a few times.