The electronics from the cassette adapter are simply placed inside an old 8-track tape, with holes cut in the chassis for the charge port and on switch. Then, all you need to do is pop the adapter ...

A select few 8-track tapes, including a rarity from Frank Sinatra and some '80s classics, have sold for hundreds or even thousands of dollars to collectors.

What exactly was the 8-Track tape? Gather round youngsters! As the old(er) staffer at Loudwire, when we recently saw National 8-Track Tape Day coming up on the calendar, it sparked some moments of ...

The limitations of the long-gone 8-track cartridge format caused headaches for artists and engineers. While the platform offered the first big chance for mobile record listening and stereo sound to ...

Marc Sendik has seen many a music format rise and fall and rise again: the vinyl album, the compact disc, even the humble cassette. But the 8-track cartridge? When Sendik, who owns High Fidelity ...

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 plays ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an audio and video creator at The Verge since 2015. The Oh Sees’ latest release is a 12-album box set in an ...

An earlier magnetic tape cartridge technology introduced by Lear Jet in 1964 as Stereo 8, although widely known by its 8-track moniker. Stereo 8 was an 8-track version of the 4-track Muntz Autostereo, ...