Abstract: A tape cassette and a leader-trailer tape therefor capable of ensuring safe and positive connection between a leader-trailer tape and a magnetic tape, to thereby permit the magnetic tape to travel in a cassette casing with high reliability. The leader-trailer tape is provided thereon with a pressure-sensitive or heat-sensitive adhesive layer, so that the leader-trailer tape may be joined directly to the magnetic tape by heating or pressurizing while overlapping the tape body. Thus, the handling of the leader-trailer tape and the joining between the leader-trailer tape and the tape body may be facilitated without using any splicing tape and without causing any trouble such as sticking of the adhesive to a cutter.

Abstract: An automatic tape cassette vending machine capable of automatically selecting a desired kind of a magnetic tape and a cassette casing and automatically determining a desired length of the magnetic tape, to thereby meet desired requirements of user's, when they input desired conditions such as a type of a magnetic tape, the length of a magnetic tape, a type of a cassette casing and the like.