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 ...

With services like Spotify and Apple Music, listening to your favorite artists is easier than ever before, and many assume that physical media no longer holds much value. For the large majority of CDs ...

Before [Woz] created the elegant Disk II interface for the Apple II, and before Commodore brute-forced the creation of the C64 5 1/4″ drive, just about every home computer used cassette tapes for ...

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, ...

CORRECTION, Dec. 31: This story originally misidentified the band that released Business as Usual. For Jason Niebaum, who’s known as “The 8-Track Guy,” getting musicians to sign 8-track tapes is less ...

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 ...

A song I hadn’t heard in a long time played on my car radio the other day, and I realized just how long it had been since I’d heard it because my ears went out of synch for a moment when the song didn ...

I never owned an 8-Track tape, but I remember clearly listening to them — a fact that sets me squarely in the midst of Generation X. Dad’s truck had an 8-Track player, and when it wasn’t jammed all to ...

John is a writer at Pocket-lint. He is passionate about all things technology, and is always keeping up with the latest smartphone and PC releases. John has previously written at MobileSyrup. When ...

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 ...

It's National 8-Track Tape Day, so I might as well make a confession: Sometimes, when my mind gets weird, I wonder if aliens might someday swoop down and ask to borrow my 8-track of Deep Purple's ...