Sound worse than digital files discs or lp.
Were 8 tracks more popular than vinyls.
Eight track and cassette tapes were introduced in the 1960s.
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Introduced the sony walkman tps l2 a 14 ounce blue and silver portable cassette player with chunky buttons headphones and a leather case.
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Despite 8 track s popularity in the 60s and 70s the compact cassette took over as the more popular choice for artists and consumers due to its favourable size and price tag.
12 inch records joined them in 1903.
When eight track tapes hit the shelves in the latter part of the sixties it was seen as a godsend.
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By the mid 1980s more cassettes than vinyl records were sold.
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Commonly called eight track cartridge eight track tape and eight track citation needed is a magnetic tape sound recording technology that was popular in the united states from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s when the compact cassette tape which predated 8 track surpassed it in popularity for pre recorded music.
People still chose to listen to vinyl records over cassettes at home but the compact size of tapes made them more conducive to car stereos and mobility than vinyl or 8 tracks.
At the time the lp was introduced nearly all phonograph records for home use were made of an abrasive and therefore noisy shellac compound employed a much larger groove and played at approximately 78 revolutions per minute rpm limiting the playing time of a 12 inch diameter record to less than five minutes per side.
The 8 track tape formally stereo 8.
The new product was a 12 or 10 inch 30 or 25 cm.
There were even rumors it would completely replace the vinyl record.
Because vinyl records can become scratched warped and dirty other formats slowly took over.
All of a sudden you could listen to your music collection in your car or out and about with the new boom boxes.
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Yet just over a decade later the humble cassette tape was able to drive it to extinction.
They are less portable than digital files.
At home players were introduced the following year and many saw the 8 track as a solution to the portability issue of records and record players.
Single albums typically including about two or three songs were marketed as a more affordable alternative to a full length cd album.
The most common diameter sizes for gramophone records are 12 inch 10 inch and 7 inch.
Are less convenient to skip tracks on than digital files discs or lps.
Early american shellac records were all 7 inch until 1901 when 10 inch records were introduced.
In 1982 the digital compact disc came to market and superseded both cassettes and lps by 1991.
The term single album is sometimes used to refer to a release that would simply be called a single in western contexts such as a 7 inch 45 rpm record released before the advent of downloadable music.
By 1910 other sizes were retired and nearly all discs were either 10 inch or 12 inch although both sizes were normally a bit smaller than their official diameter.
