Just have each tape owner read it to the best ability of their drive, and then compare the results centrally: for each byte, take that which occurs in the most

Just have each tape owner read it to the best ability of their drive, and then compare the results centrally: for each byte, take that which occurs in the most results. I would assume that where tapes fail, they all fail differently. And that should also work for floppy disks, right?