8tracks For Sale

[Lorri Dent]

Weintend to continue to operate the 8tracks brand and build upon the service. Over time we will add new features and integrations, making 8tracks the best destination and community for amazing, handcrafted playlists, music discovery and finding just the right music for a particular moment.

Second, due to licensing restrictions, some tracks on public playlists will be automatically skipped. Playlists with too many of these skipped tracks have been temporarily unpublished. The DJs who created these playlists can still listen to them and will be able edit them once mix creation is reinstated. The good news is the vast majority of current 8tracks playlists are available to stream.

Every paying subscriber as of December 31, 2019 will receive extended access to 8tracks Plus for the amount of remaining time you should have received on your originally purchased subscription plan. We have a formula for this and it will be automatically applied to your account.

Rest assured, we are also offering 100% guaranteed refunds for anyone that is charged a renewal starting next week and does not have the ability or desire to pay. Simply reach out to sup...@8tracks.com.

After a successful roll-out of audio ads in the US, 8tracks will now offer audio advertising in Canada with leanStream. 8tracks boasts 3,000,000 handcrafted playlists and a large audience in Canada, with nearly 90% between the ages of 18-34.

leanStream will exclusively represent 8tracks in the Canadian market. Audio ads are available to advertisers with a managed service or through programmatic deals. In the move, Jesse Haw, previously Partnerships Director for Canada at 8tracks, joins the leanStream team. Jesse will continue to build out unique executions for 8tracks as well as other clients.

And the fun is just getting started! We have a newly-released Spotify integration, an upcoming Alexa integration, and a bigger, new music library on the way which will eventually support mix-making in our mobile apps.

#3. Last month, thanks to the introduction of audio ads, we were able to significantly raise the free listening limit for US listeners (less than 1% of listeners reach the limit now). Early results look positive, and we hope to be able to remove the limits altogether in the near future.

And our upcoming crowdfunding round on Wefunder will directly support us as we make progress towards new integrations and features. Learn more here about how you can become an investor and get a lifetime upgrade to ad-free 8tracks Plus.

Nine years ago today, my co-founder Remi worked away in San Francisco, and our lead web developer Ed in Williamsburg, putting the final touches on the live product. The team headed out to the Stanton Social in the Lower East Side to celebrate in the warm summer night. It was a good era all around: SoundCloud had just launched, Tumblr was the hottest thing around, it looked like Obama might just head to the White House. And we were just getting started.

We received credible reports today that a copy of our user database has been leaked, including the email addresses and encrypted passwords of only those 8tracks users who signed up using email. If you signed up via Google or Facebook authentication, then your password is not affected by this leak. 8tracks does not store passwords in a plain text format, but rather uses one-way hashes to ensure they remain difficult to access. These password hashes can only be decrypted using brute force attacks, which are expensive and time-consuming, even for one password.

We have found what we believe to be the method of the attack and taken precautions to ensure our databases are secure. 8tracks does not store sensitive customer data such as credit card numbers, phone numbers, or street addresses.

We recommend that people refrain from using the same password across multiple sites, particularly on sensitive applications like email or banking software. We suggest making use of two-factor authentication and using a password manager like LastPass or 1password.

We do not believe this breach involved access to database or production servers, which are secured by public/private SSH-key pairs. However, it did allow access to a system containing a backup of database tables, including this user data. We have secured the account in question, changed passwords for our storage systems, and added access logging to our backup system. We are auditing all our security practices and have already taken steps to enforce 2-step authentication on Github, to limit access to repositories, and to improve our password encryption.

Anyone who has visited a garage sale has likely seen boxes full of 8-track tapes. A huge treasure trove of music and other audio content is available in this format, and you may even have your own collection. Luckily, you can find a great selection of 8-track players made for car, home, and portable use on eBay at affordable prices.

The 8-track, originally known as the Stereo 8, is a type of cartridge that was widely used in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Before the introduction of the 8-track in 1964, the reel-to-reel deck was the most frequently used format, but it was often difficult to use. The 8-track format, a plastic cassette cartridge playing the tape on a continuous loop, is easy to use. You simply push the cartridge into the deck and press the play button. It was also the first tape deck available for use in cars so that you could listen to your favorite songs on the road.

To play music in stereo on any tape format requires two tracks u001a one track plays through the left speaker and the other plays through the right. 8-track tapes contained four programs, like the sides of a record album, so the tape held a total of 8 tracks of music. This approach doubled the playing time of the tape, so long collections of music, like double albums, were possible on one cassette. The player switches from one program to another automatically, so the tape plays in a continuous loop. You can also change the program manually.

The widespread use of the 8-track tape led to the development of many types of equipment, both stereo and mono. You can find decks designed for vehicles that mount to the center hump or that install in the dash. Many in-home options are available, from stand-alone players complete with amplifier and speakers to player and recording decks that integrate with a larger sound system. Portable players, like boom boxes, were widely used because they made it possible to listen to tunes anywhere. Many decks can record stereo audio tracks to the cassette tape, as well.

The 8-track tape was used for almost 20 years, and every major musical artist of the time released a tape version of each album during that era. There are still millions of recordings available on 8-track tapes. Having an 8-track player as a part of your audio equipment could open up a whole new world of collecting possibilities.

On 15th September 1965, the Ford Motor Company became the first automaker to offer an eight-track tape player as an option for their entire line of vehicles on sale in the US. Tapes were initially only available at auto parts stores, as home eight-track equipment was still a year away.

Men in suits would queue to buy the latest releases by the Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc., knowing full well they would be returning to the store within the next few days with a very long trail of tape wrapped around the plastic case.

Here is the technical explanation for this: The cartridges had an audible pause due to the presence of a length of metallic foil, which a sensor detected and signaled the end of the tape and acted as a splice for the loop. The foil passed across a pair of electrical contacts, which were in the tape path. Contact of the foil closed an electrical circuit that engages a solenoid which mechanically shifts the tape head to the level of the next track.

Eight-track tapes were rubbish. They would jam as the tape got dirty, the lubricant wore away, and if the tape was exposed to heat when you left it on the rear shelf in the car, it would flatten the pitch and, over time, would wow and flutter, and then spool the tape all over the floor of your motor.

The advantage of the 8 track over the cassette, was selecting a song. The cassettes you had to rewind the whole tape, the 8 track you pushed a button through the tracks to get to your song you wanted.

I used to Have all my Music Colection on 8 Track Sterio. Listened to all my music in Car.As parents wernt to keen on my musical taste at the time ! And back in the 70s 8 Track was far superior to any other format..With great reproduction.And You could change any song with a touch of a button.just like a CD Player..And thay were not as Big as a CD .! I Used to service mine myself.just pop the case open.Lift tape out carefully..remove the jocky wheels and lubricate with vacating as most cartridges were assembled dry..Ounce You did that..Cartridges would never fail.played hundreds of hours. And still play perfectly Now.!!.. Clever piece of kit.

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[2] 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.[3][4][5]

The format was commonly used in cars and was most popular in the United States and Canada and, to a lesser extent, in the United Kingdom and Japan.[3][4][6] One advantage of the 8-track tape cartridge was that it could play continuously in an endless loop, and did not have to be ejected, turned around and reinserted to play the entire tape. After about 80 minutes of playing time, the tape would start again at the beginning. Because of the loop, there is no rewind. The only options the consumer has are play, fast forward, record, and program (track) change.[7]

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