The 8-track is named for its quarter-inch tape that holds eight parallel tracks of sound. Just like in a cassette, a felt pressure-pad pushes the tape against a playback head in the deck.

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that ...

Forget radio, in the 1960s-70s, people relied on physical media like 8-tracks and cassette tapes. The Highway Hi-Fi allowed ...

There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the ...

Image via 8-Track Heaven, a site which has itself gone to 8-Track Heaven. So now, the problem is the tapes themselves. I think there are two main reasons why people think that 8-tracks suck.

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is working to digitize thousands of rare cassette recordings, including audio from early space missions, that are in danger of being lost. Scott ...

Their 8-track version of their 1978 album Some Girls featured a different running order from the editions released on vinyl and cassette, and later CD (you can see compare track listings below).

The 1975 murder of a Maryland woman was finally solved with the help of an old cassette tape and the mugshot of the victim, authorities announced Tuesday.

The Cassette Tape and the Birth of Hip-Hop The cassette tape was invented in 1963 by engineer Lou Ottens.

Amy Corson has created cassette tape art of John Lennon, George Harrison, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Jerry Garcia, and more.