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.

Through the ages, we've seen several physical music formats come and go. These mediums are each very much a product of their time, with distinct strengths, weaknesses, and attributes that make them ...

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 ...

Bill Lear didn’t invent the concept of a tape cartridge, he inherited a flawed one and made it actually work. According to the format’s sourced history on Wikipedia, the lineage traces back to George ...

Remember good ol’ 8-track tape? This old-school sound-recording technology was around from the mid-1960s to around the early 1980s before the compact cassette tape became the hot new thing in music ...

8-track tapes are a curious technology. They were only briefly popular, specifically in the context of the North American automotive industry of the 1960s through the 1980s. As an analog magnetic ...