The most common explanation why it's called a tape is because you tape music to the icon. Or you tab it and that tape is just a sloppy spoken thing that just got used because it's phonetics sound better.

Similar we all know that the save icon is just that a prehistoric 3D printed safe before they invented keys. It has a heavy lid to prevent people from casually stealing stuff...,
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