 While I'm driving I'm listening to an old audio cassette recording of Redwall by Brian Jock and it turns out to be really good. But I insert tape too and this happens. This is where being 50 years old is actually an advantage. I know exactly what to do. Get to the nearest grocery store, pick up a couple of supplies, carefully crack open the cassette case along the seams to get to the insides, tape the broken ends of the audio tape together, then carefully sandwich the case back together, tape it up and you're back in business. Now to clean the insides of the cassette player. Middle-aged man to the rescue!