8-track CD
8-track or eight-track may refer to: * 8-track cartridge, an analog magnetic tape format used for consumer audio distribution from the late 1960s to the early 1980s * 8-track, an eight-track reel-to-reel magnetic tape format used for multitrack recording in professional recording studios * 8tracks, an online site for user-generated mixtapes See also * ''8-Track Flashback'', an American television series broadcast on the VH1 network * ADAT, a magnetic tape format used for the simultaneous digital recording of eight analogue audio or digital audio tracks * Quadruple track A quadruple-track railway (also known as a four-track railway) is a railway line consisting of four parallel tracks with two tracks used in each direction. Quadruple-track railways can handle large amounts of traffic, and so are used on very bus ...

8-track Cartridge
The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. The format was most popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Japan. One advantage of the 8-track tape cartridge was that it could play continuously, and did not have to be "flipped over" to play the entire tape. It is now considered to be obsolete, although there are collectors that refurbish these tapes and players as well as some bands that issue these tapes as a novelty(Cheap Trick's "The Latest" in 2009 and Dolly Parton's "A Holly Dolly Christmas" in 2020 with a track that's only available on the 8 track) The Stereo 8 Cartridge was created in 1964 by a consortiu ...
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Multitrack Recording
Multitrack recording (MTR), also known as multitracking or tracking, is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole. Multitracking became possible in the mid-1950s when the idea of simultaneously recording different audio channels to separate discrete "tracks" on the same reel-to-reel tape was developed. A "track" was simply a different channel recorded to its own discrete area on the tape whereby their relative sequence of recorded events would be preserved, and playback would be simultaneous or synchronized. A multitrack recorder allows one or more sound sources to different tracks to be simultaneously recorded, which may subsequently be processed and mixed separately. Take, for example, a band with vocals, guitars, a keyboard, bass, and drums that are to be recorded. The singer's microphone, the output of the guitars and keys, and eac ...
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8tracks
8tracks.com or infinitetracks.com is an internet radio and social networking website revolving around the concept of streaming user-curated playlists consisting of at least 8 tracks. Users create free accounts and are able to browse the site and listen to other user-created mixes, as well as create their own mixes. The site also has a subscription-based service, 8tracks Plus, although this is currently only available to listeners based in the United States and Canada. 8tracks is recognized on ''Time'' magazine's 2011 incarnation of its "50 Best Websites" List. 8tracks also received positive press in Wired, CNET, and Business Insider. Citing difficulties with funding and maintaining royalty payments, 8tracks ceased its services on 31 December 2019. However, on 19 April 2020 8tracks relaunched under the new ownership and operation of BackBeat Inc. History One of Porter's major influences for the project was Napster, more specifically its "Hotlist" feature, which allowed users t ...
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8-Track Flashback
''8-Track Flashback'' (also titled ''VH1's 8-Track Flashback'') is a TV series hosted by David Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Suzanne Somers. This rhyming title refers to the fact that it is a "flashback" to the popularity of 8-tracks in the 1970s. The show aired on VH1 VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American basic cable television network based in New York City and owned by Paramount Global. It was created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Commun ... from September 23, 1995 to 1998. A compilation CD, ''8-Track Flashback: One Hit Wonders'', was released in the late 1990s highlighting some of the songs featured on the series."Billboard 1997"
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ADAT
Alesis Digital Audio Tape (ADAT) is a magnetic tape format used for the recording of eight digital audio tracks onto the same S-VHS tape used by consumer VCRs. Although it is a tape-based format, the term ''ADAT'' now refers to its successor, the Alesis ADAT HD24, which features hard disk recording rather than the traditional tape-based ADAT, which in turn is now considered obsolete. History The product was announced in January 1991 at the NAMM convention in Anaheim, California by Alesis. The first ADAT recorders shipped over a year later in February or March 1992. More audio tracks could be recorded by synchronizing up to 16 ADAT machines together, for a total of 128 tracks. While synchronization had been available in earlier machines, ADAT machines were the first to do so with sample-accurate timing, which in effect allowed a studio owner to purchase a 24-track tape machine eight tracks at a time. This capability and its comparatively low cost, originally introduced at $ ...
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