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Besides what others said, walkmen were the origin of the term mixtape, where you basially had to play music real time from a cassette, and record it on another cassette. Recording radio was pretty common.

There was debates about quality (that lasted even into the CD era) about music quality. Generally, vinyl was considered better in almost all forms, I don't remember hearing much about audiophiles using casettes.

Imo CD era with digital music more prominent when they came out (first in box form, then in mobile walkman form), because you could get high quality audio on them. This pretty much transformed the DJ world as CDJs started replacing vinyl decks, which aligned with the rise of electronic music since you could do stuff with digital audio that you couldn't do with analog (set cue points, auto beat match, and trigger without having to manually spin the decks)