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Welcome to TAPELINE Ltd
TAPELINE's Interactive Website
Tapeline was originally formed in 1985 as a small audio tape copying service for local bands and musicians. The enormous popularity of the audio cassette throughout the remainder of the 80’s and early 90’s saw the company rapidly expand with the manufacturing of cassettes and installation of professional bulk duplication equipment.
In 1995 Tapeline became a Limited Company and soon branched out into the CD-R duplication market and later Video and DVD duplication.
Today Tapeline Ltd still service many well-known clients and production contracts and can offer the following services: Blank Audio Cassettes, Pre-Recorded Audio Cassettes, Tape Mastering, On-Body Printing, All packaging, Blank CD-R and DVD product, CD-R Duplication, DVD Duplication, DVD On-Disc Printing, Cases and Packaging.
As we entered the 21st century, Tapeline embraced the digital revolution, but only to enhance is existing business. We run a successful Ebay shop, offering branded and unbranded cassettes at reduced prices. We have also cut time in cassette and cd duplicating times by allowing digital downloads to be forwarded to us as masters.
Through the Ebay shop, our name has become a World Wide brand, and we regularly receive orders from Europe, to USA, Canada, and as far away as Australia, and New Zealand.
We have a wide variety of delivery options available to us, and we pick the best one to suit the customers needs i.e. urgency of delivery etc..
So as you can see Tapeline is a forward thinking company, always coming up with new ideas, and expanding its operations when others are closing down..
So why not join our community.. Get involved.. Have your say....
Alan Williams ( Director ) Tapeline Ltd |
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Tape Stories: Cassette tape sales are on the up
alan writes "Sky News, May 2009
Three years ago, everyone was predicting the end for the humble cassette but something surprising is happening. Instead of withering - sales of blank tapes are on the up.
TDK, the market leader, said it had sold one million blank tapes in the first four months of this year alone.
"We're pretty surprised actually because tape sales seem to be holding up very, very well," TDK's Craig Hill told Sky News.
"We thought that they would tail off dramatically, year on year. In the last 12 months, we've seen a resurgence."
Tape players were everywhere 20 years ago. In the home, in the car, even on the move. Tapes were where we put our music.
By 1988, we'd bought over three billion of them. But the CD had been invented and pretty soon, it took over.
In 2007, sales of blank tapes had plummeted from 50 million a year to just 5 million.
Naturally, everyone thought by now the format would be dead and buried and the factories shut.
But instead - demand is increasing.
There are a few reasons for the rise, but the main one is lots of people still have players either in the car or at home.
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Posted by adminon Wednesday, February 10 @ 06:44:56 CST (39 reads)
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Tape Stories: Not long left for cassette tapes?
Not long left for cassette tapes  The cassette is facing erasure From its creation in the 1960s through to its peak of popularity in the 1980s, the cassette has been a part of music culture for 40 years. But industry experts believe it does not have long left, at least in the West. The cassette may have hissed, been prone to wow and flutter, and often ended its life chewed in a tape deck, but it ruled for four decades before MP3s and downloads. However, the cassette's reign now seems to be over Not long left for cassette tapes Some 40 years after global cassette production began in earnest, sales are in terminal decline. From its creation in the 1960s through to its peak of popularity in the 1980s, the cassette has been a part of music culture for 40 years. But industry experts believe it does not have long left, at least in the West. The cassette may have hissed, been prone to wow and flutter, and often ended its life chewed in a tape deck, but it ruled for four decades before MP3s and downloads. However, the cassette's reign now seems to be over. "Cassette albums have declined quite significantly since their peak in 1989 when they were selling 83 million units in the UK," Matt Phillips of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) told BBC World Service's The Music Biz programme.
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Posted by adminon Wednesday, February 10 @ 04:10:15 CST (29 reads)
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Why the music cassette has never died
Richard Goldsmith, of the upscale hi-fi geeksters’ paradise Audio Gold, dismisses the notion of a a dying format. “I’m not sure there’s any such thing,” he says. Cast your eye around his North London shop, and you can see why he might say such a thing. Walking past turntables and transistors that look like exhibits from a design museum, he shows me a cassette player priced at a bracing £450. It’s made by Nakamichi, who prided themselves on divining hitherto unimagined clarity from the humble C90
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Posted by adminon Wednesday, January 13 @ 18:12:29 CST (409 reads)
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Tape Stories: Remember the cassette? Mix tapes and mangled favourites in the car stereo ?
In 1989 Britain was a nation in love with the pre-recorded cassette. We bought 83 million that year. It was the peak of the little plastic music box's popularity.
Twenty years on, you would be forgiven for imagining the format was all but dead. The British Phonographic Institute says just 8,443 were sold in 2009.
But that number hides a new trend. In a digital age artists are turning to the cassette as an intriguing and challenging format - a ready-made frame for sound art.
In London, a tiny label called The Tapeworm has been quietly producing cassette-only releases since last summer, each one limited to 250 copies. Most have sold out.
"We do not view this as a dead format," says The Tapeworm's Philip Marshall. "We do not view this as something which does not have a place right now.
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Posted by adminon Sunday, January 10 @ 11:37:00 CST (325 reads)
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Tape Stories: Record sales as Tapeline takes on the downloaders
December 22, 2009 ( Manchester Evening News )
A STOCKPORT business is recording its best figures for 13 years – as it enjoys the unlikely revival of the cassette tape. Tapeline, based in Bredbury, is one of the few specialist cassette manufacturers left in the country. And despite the rise in downloads dominating the music industry, business has been booming as record companies begin to release music on tape again to meet a growing demand from elderly fans. Island Records, part of Universal Records, was one of the first to experiment with cassettes for their new poetry album “Words for You” after receiving requests from senior listeners for a tape version. Island recruited Tapeline to record and manufacture the tapes and so far over 4,000 copies featuring celebrities reading poetry to classical music have been sold on cassette, while only 768 copies have been downloaded. The record company is struggling to keep up with demand while owner Alan Williams and his small specialist staff of three have never been busier. This year Tapeline has produced 500,000 cassettes – 25 per cent up on 2008 – generating a turnover of up to £300,000. “The last six months has been phenomenal,” said Alan, 46, who started the company in 1985. “We are busier than ever. The Island deal has been a massive boost for us and we are fully stretched at the moment. And we can’t take anymore workers on as the work is so specialised no one has the right training nowadays.” At their peak in 1989, annual tape sales reached 83m in Britain, with Tapeline making up to 2m, but many shops stopped stocking them in 2007 following the dominance of CDs and now downloads. Tapeline imports parts for the tapes from China and America and uses the same machines it had in the 80s. Alan added: “Twenty or so years ago when cassettes tapes were at their peak, every record label had their own factory but now there is nobody left, which is great for us as all the work is coming here. “About nine months ago Island contacted us. They had obviously spotted a gap in the market and acted quickly to fill it.”
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Posted by adminon Saturday, January 02 @ 14:18:49 CST (34 reads)
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