There was some classroom in my high school that had an 8-Track machine. 8-Tracks were pretty cool. I think I get the progression of music technology, with one minor exception. Phonograph to record player. Check. Record player to 8-Track. Check. 8-Track to cassette tape. EH? Cassette tape to CD. Check. CD to MP3. Check.
8-Track are way better than cassette tapes. You can skip to whatever song you want. Cassette tapes require rewinding/fastforwarding/hitting play/rewinding more/taking tape out to look at the progression of songs/hitting play again to try and identify name of song/taking tape out again just to be sure what the progression of songs were/fastforwarding/hitting play/finding the song, but realizing you fastforwarded too much/having to rewind again/hitting play and resigning yourself to the fact you have to just sack up and listen to the last minute of the song previous to the song you want to hear. How did this every happen? Of course I grew up on cassette tapes so I just figured that's all there was, other than records. Had I known I could have had much more awesome 8-Track technology, I would have demanded 8-Tracks in lieu of cassette tapes.
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8 Tracks were gigantic and cumbersome, but the real reason cassette tapes blew up was that you could record very easily on them.
Anonymous,
Couldn't you record easily on 8-Tracks? And if not, I'm sure the technology was there. If only America embraced 8-Tracks and wasn't so hasty to usher in the latest fad.
I'm guessing you're the sort of dude who made a lot of special mix tapes for chicks who didn't like you that much and you put lots of lame songs on said mix tape that were flowery and sensitive.
most tape players after 1980 had a seek feature that got you to the next song without much hassle. indeed that was a perk of fancy cars ca 1986 or so...when you were still wetting your bed.
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