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, ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Apple recently released version 1.1 of GarageBand for iOS, adding a few features and squashing a few bugs on the iPad version of its music creation software. Perhaps the biggest new feature, however, ...

Sync isn't Ford's only pioneering automotive entertainment technology. On this day in 1965, Ford first offered factory-installed 8-track tape players with tapes initially only available in auto parts ...

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 ...

If any cassette ever belonged in an 8-track adapter, it's Led Zeppelin II. Here's where the magic happened. This device was pretty clever. There was a motor driving the cassette mechanism and a ...

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 ...

If you have followed the auto stereo scene at all over the last few years, you're pretty much aware of the technological breakthroughs that have taken place. Integrated circuitry and electronic ...

When Snowy White laid down a guitar solo for Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals, he didn't suspect it would go unheard by most fans. His contribution to "Pigs on the Wing" only appeared on the 8-track ...

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 ...