Oh, I feel so very modern asking this, but yeah.
2006-10-07 06:40:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I mean, can you play them in the same kind of player?
2006-10-07 06:41:19 · update #1
I remember my uncle had a huge 8 track colletion when I was little. When we went to visit, we would take turns listening with those huge 70's headphones (like the hearing protection they wear on airport runways).
An 8 track came in a different package than a cassette. It was not much smaller than a small paperback novel. The tape inside was spooled to play continuously (no rewinding) and the playback head would shift to the next 2 tracks (stereo) when the leader tape came by. This led to some interesting 'features' when a song was longer than one pass of the tape. I remember the drum solo from Iron Butterfly's "Inna Godda Davida" faded out in the middle, then the track changed and the drum solo faded back in.
It was called 8 track, because there were 4 passes of two tracks (Stereo) on the tape.
2006-10-07 06:50:09 · answer #1 · answered by Stephen F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I have a working 8-track in my 76 Camero. They are about 4 times larger than cassettes. They can play more than 8 songs.
The term 8-track refers to 4 separate stereo(2) channels/tracts on the same lenght of tape as opposed to cassettes which have 1 stereo channels/tracks which make the 8-track tape 4 times wider. You can change the channel (1 thru 4) any time giving you instant access to other parts of the tape.
2006-10-07 07:18:04 · answer #2 · answered by GlooBoy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How old are you? The answer is NO. You can't play 8 tracks on the same kind of player that plays a cassette.
2006-10-07 06:44:25 · answer #3 · answered by esugrad97 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, 8-tracks are from the 1970s. They would play continually. A cassette tape has to be taken out and flipped over to continue playing.
2006-10-07 06:43:08 · answer #4 · answered by Sinner & Saint 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, 8 tracks are the generation before the casette tape. Much larger and use a different kind of player
2006-10-07 06:52:36 · answer #5 · answered by richkaryn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, 8 track tapes are old! They are really big and can't be played in a cassette player.
2006-10-07 06:42:30 · answer #6 · answered by angl2839 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they're very different, besides the fact of size differences. 8 track tapes when they play believe it or not you couldn't fast forward them or rewind them at all. there was a button you could push to go to a different track, they each had 4 tracks on them and 4 songs on each track, if u pushed the button to go to a different track and were on the second song of the other track you'd go to the new track but it would be the second song in it and at the same place in the song. u couldn't choose which song on the track u wanted to go to. well now that i've totally confused everybody....sorry but it is confusing. wow talk about memory lane....i feel so old right now :-D
2006-10-07 06:48:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it's very different. cassettes have to be flipped over once one side is finished playing, and they're much smaller. 8-tracks are bigger cartridges and play continuously, but the odd thing about them is that the eight-track player switches "channels," often in the middle of a song. it's very annoying. i have many fond and annoying memories of listening to 8-tracks that my parents used to buy.
2006-10-07 06:50:36 · answer #8 · answered by eyeswideopen37880 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. 8 Track tapes were bulkier and were only capable of playing 8 songs (hense the name 8 track).
2006-10-07 06:43:23 · answer #9 · answered by Hunter J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. 8 tracks are loops continuously. cassettes are turned over so they are not the same at all.
2006-10-07 06:43:04 · answer #10 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋