Yes, there was nothing better than hearing kerchunk right in the middle of your favorite song when the solenoid fired changing your track. With 8-tracks you developed these odd track switching patterns that allowed you to hear some of the stuff that you liked and skip much of what you didn't.mandolarian wrote:Yeah, that's why 8-track was the superior tech.Tricky-Loops wrote:This wasn't just inconvenient, this even has led to some serious car accidents because people were too distracted...Lode_Runner wrote:Finding your favourite track on a tape.
FWD, wait, wait, wait, Stop, Play, are we there yet? No, Stop, FWD, wait, wait, wait, Stop, Play, are we there yet? no, stop, FWD, wait, wait, wait, Stop, Play, too far, RWD, wait, stop, play... oh no did it too fast, tape's been chewed. I don't miss this at all.
And, if you've ever had one for more than a few years you know that they always die in roughly the same way. The Achilles heel of the 8-track is the capstan which would lose its grip and fail to engage the pinch roller sufficiently to pull the tape cleanly through. When it got too smooth you'd get crazy wow and flutter.
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Oh sure, you could clean it, but, since it relied on not being totally smooth, at some point, they just wore out.