Editing Cassette tape (section)

===Decline===
Despite sales of CDs overtaking those of prerecorded cassettes in the early 1990s in the U.S.,<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. Sales Database |url=https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ |website=RIAA |access-date=19 October 2022 |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010043013/https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the format remained popular for specific applications, such as [[car audio]], [[personal stereo]]s, [[boomboxes]], [[telephone answering machine]]s, [[dictation (exercise)|dictation]], [[field recording]], [[home recording]], and [[mixtape]]s well into the decade. Cassette players were typically more resistant to shocks than CD players, and their lower fidelity was not considered a serious drawback in mobile use. With the introduction of [[electronic skip protection]] it became possible to use portable CD players on the go, and automotive CD players became viable. [[CD-R]] drives and media also became affordable for consumers around the same time.<ref>{{cite web |title=1995: Consumer CD-R Drive Priced Below $1000 |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/consumer-cd-r-drive-priced-below-1000/ |website=Computer History Museum |access-date=23 January 2022 |archive-date=21 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321023830/https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/consumer-cd-r-drive-priced-below-1000/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

By 1993, annual shipments of CD players had reached 5 million, up 21% from the year before; while cassette player shipments had dropped 7% to approximately 3.4 million.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Record and prerecorded tape stores|encyclopedia=Gale Encyclopedia of American Industries|year=2005|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/record-and-prerecorded-tape-stores|access-date=20 September 2006|archive-date=26 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726124256/http://www.answers.com/topic/record-and-prerecorded-tape-stores|url-status=live}}</ref> Sales of pre-recorded music cassettes in the US dropped from 442 million in 1990 to 274,000 by 2007.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Tape Echo: Specialty labels keep cassettes alive |magazine=Billboard |url=http://www.lostsoundtapes.com/files/billboard_magazine.jpg |date=11 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225121218/http://www.lostsoundtapes.com/files/billboard_magazine.jpg |archive-date=25 February 2009 }}</ref> For [[audiobook]]s, the final year that cassettes represented more than 50% of total market sales was 2002 when they were replaced by CDs as the dominant media.<ref name="apa2004">[http://www.audiopub.org/LinkedFiles/APA_Fact_Sheet.pdf Audio Publishers Association Fact Sheet] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026033037/http://www.audiopub.org/LinkedFiles/APA_Fact_Sheet.pdf |date=26 October 2010 }} (also includes some historical perspective in the 1950s by Marianne Roney)</ref>

The last new car with an available cassette player was a 2014 [[Tagaz Aquila|TagAZ AQUiLA.]]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Tagaz Aquila|language=Russian|newspaper=Wroom.ru|url=https://wroom.ru/cars/tagaz/aquila|access-date=26 January 2021|archive-date=17 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117102832/https://wroom.ru/cars/tagaz/aquila|url-status=live}}</ref> Four years prior, Sony had stopped the production of personal cassette players.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sony kills the cassette Walkman on the iPod's birthday|date=23 October 2010|url=https://gizmodo.com/sony-kills-the-cassette-walkman-on-the-ipods-birthday-5671670|access-date=19 October 2020|archive-date=9 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109025823/https://gizmodo.com/sony-kills-the-cassette-walkman-on-the-ipods-birthday-5671670|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2011, the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] removed the phrase "cassette player" from its 12th edition Concise version,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/reports-of-the-death-of-the-cassette-tape-are-greatly-exaggerated/ | access-date=28 January 2015 | dictionary=Oxford English Dictionary | first=Ammon | last=Shea | title=Reports of the death of the cassette tape are greatly exaggerated | date=10 November 2011 | archive-date=12 May 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512113109/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/reports-of-the-death-of-the-cassette-tape-are-greatly-exaggerated/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> which prompted some media sources to mistakenly report that the term "cassette tape" was being removed.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/cassette-tapes-removal-from-dictionary_n_932107.html | work=Huffington Post | first=David | last=Moye | title=Oxford Dictionary Removes 'Cassette Tape,' Gets Sound Lashing From Audiophiles | date=22 August 2011 | archive-date=6 March 2018 | access-date=26 September 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306201643/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/cassette-tapes-removal-from-dictionary_n_932107.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

In India, music continued to be released on the cassette format due to its low cost until 2009.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kohli-Khandekar, Vanita|title=The Indian Media Business|edition=4|location=New Delhi|publisher=Sage India|date=2013|pages=184–90|isbn=9788132118015|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tRdBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT184|via=[[Google Books]]|accessdate=26 July 2022}}</ref>