If you’re one of the diehards that still has a cassette collection, you might find these 3D prints from Thingiverse useful to repair and maintain any broken tapes you may have.

Old cassette tapes are stacked on shelves at Mohammad Ashraf Matoo’s cassette tape player repair shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) ...

Tapes have shorter life spans, and things like heat and recorder malfunctions can cause parts of the cassettes to degrade faster than other mediums. But, for some, that's the magic.

Only a few shops in Srinagar, the region’s main city, sell tape recorders or blank tapes, and the availability of spare parts and skilled repair technicians has drastically dwindled. A handful of ...