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⌈ Secret Post #5555 ⌋

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[fscom]

02. https://i.imgur.com/FxDRmPs.png

[(Anonymous)]

God, 8tracks was fun. I never even waded into the fandom aspect of it, it was just SO GOOD for that old mixtape feeling.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh 8tracks :( All the music I found out about through all my then media obsessions. Good times.

[tabaqui]

Okay, so....8tracks is a ...music mixing platform? Or something?

I was thinking EIGHT TRACKS (my earliest music memories are my brother playing Styx on 8 track in our station wagon and me not having a clue and thinking the fade out/fade in of the track switching was part of the music), and was baffled as to how the playlist style was somehow related.....

(is old)

[pantswarrior]

I thought the same thing, heh. I was a little young to actually HAVE an 8-track, but they still were around in my youth and so I was thinking for a second that maybe this style was reminiscent of 8-track package design...? But then wasn't sure why that was tied into Tumblr unless it was that "nostalgia for old formats that were out of style when I was born" thing that people have been doing with vinyl.

Except I seem to remember 8-track did not actually have excellent quality worthy of being nostalgic about. :D

[tabaqui]

Nah, man, 8 tracks were great! You got used to the fade out/fade in thing and the big 'ker-chunk!' when it switched tracks. :D Styx, Boston, Rush - my older brother had all the classics and my mom would let him play them in the car so long as he didn't blast them. He would explain the song meanings to us - it was great. :D

My first (only) bf also had an 8 track in his Nova. Cassettes were better, though - you could pack more in boxes in your floorboards than 8 tracks.

The first music I bought was on vinyl. Cheap Trick.

[pantswarrior]

Heh, by the time I was old enough to "buy" anything, we were well into cassette era. But my parents had a collection of old vinyl - Pink Floyd and the Beatles were my faves (and when I was a little kid I remember having a Rainbow Brite album on vinyl) - and I think they skipped right over 8-track. I only ever used one I think a couple times at someone else's house, and by then who knows how old it was and whether it was in decent shape. I don't really remember much except going "Huh, so that's what they look like!"

I guess that sort of unique fading and the sound would be something one could be nostalgic for. Kind of like the nostalgia for the ol' dialup modem sounds. Not necessarily the optimal way to do things, but something that once upon a time meant something really awesome. =)

[tabaqui]

Exactly, yes. It didn't make the music better, but it was drives into town on a summer day, with the windows down, all of us together, listening and singing along. The station wagon came with a couple of 8 tracks, as well, the 'Ford Family of Music' collection, with Henry Mancini and Glen Campbell and the Carpenters.... We listened to that on trips to see my mom's family. :D

My parents had a ton of vinyl, but it was all from the 40s and 50s and 60s, big band and musicals and things like Nat King Cole. Or reel to reel tapes of stuff my dad had made - we had one full of Christmas music that played for like three hours that we always listened to in the season.

Now i'm basically doing a deep mental dive into music and my childhood - it's nice! :D

[pantswarrior]

Oh yeah. My childhood music was mostly different stuff - born in the late 70s, mom was an aerobics instructor in the 80s and had a huge drawer full of pop cassettes which I largely ignored in favor of stuff from the 50s and 60s after a friend brought over the Dirty Dancing soundtrack and I didn't give a crap about any of the new music written for the film but I loved all the older stuff. That... kinda never changed.

So I get that. I mean now I'm thinking of sitting out in the backyard grass with a couple other kids on a hot summer day with the sprinkler going and listening to the Ronettes. Must've been on cassette but ... cassette doesn't exactly have any sort of unique sound quality to it that makes it stand out as "ah yes it was this specific format".

[tabaqui]

I mostly knew about music through my older brother, the radio (mostly top 40, we didn't get a lot of reception out in the country), and my dad always playing 'Remember When' on the radio, which played mostly music and radio shows from the 1920s-1940s.

I really only started looking for and choosing my own music in middle school, around 7th grade.

Nah, cassettes were good, portable, and had those wonderful fold-out inserts with all the lyrics (such tiny print!), but not a particular sound to them, for sure.

[pantswarrior]

I don't think I regularly listened to anything "contemporary" until my first stay at a hospital for the health issues that still plague me, where I was on a pre-teen unit with a dozen girls who were a little older than me and were into "typical teenage girl" pursuits like listening to the radio a lot, including while sleeping. And to my surprise, I liked some of it enough to listen to it later while it wasn't being inflicted on me!

One bonus of cassettes was that I could actually just tape stuff off the radio after that, hahah. There is definitely some nostalgia for that too. =)

[tabaqui]

Oooh, yeah. My sister and i had a little cassette tape player, and we would put it up next to the radio, fingers at the ready, to record our favorite songs off of Casey Kasem's Top 40, HOPING he wouldn't talk over the start of the song.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, god, YES, the whole thing of trying to record songs off the radio. So true about getting annoyed at the DJ talk (and I say this as someone whose dad was a radio DJ :p), and you had to time it just right so you wouldn't miss the beginning of the song. And of course, the whole thing of having to check how much tape was left on your cassette to see if you even had room to record a song.

Good times :D. Kids today, they will never know...

[(Anonymous)]

Glad it wasn't just me!

[tabaqui]

Heeeee!

So 8tracks...

[(Anonymous)]

8tracks was...hmmm. It was sort of a music streaming service (with a lot of indie/who the hell are you artists, I think they had bigger names/a wider range overall feat. Popular artists as well from all over) that allowed you to create playlists, often with an aesthetic "album cover" for your playlist. You could name it, place a description, and foist it upon the site. Wiki explains it more accurately https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/8tracks.com

Playlists needed to be 8 tracks or more.

I want to say this was mid 2000s? (Wiki says 2008, so on the money about it). Anyway, certain fandoms/fandom users would use it to create playlists for characters, relationships, certain fics. There were plenty of "walking down the street by a nice cafe or rain city" playlists, unrelated to fandom. But the whole fandom vibe was like:

Album cover image: a hand holding flowers, with some filters, think emo-ish.

Title: Kiss Me, Villain, Out by the Garden
Description:
Once before that woman led you into temptation... and you sinned... Aren't you afraid of what she may do to you a second time? | All Might x OC|

Title and description were usually dealing with the theme of the playlist, and when dealing especially with fic/fandom, tended to refer to or quote obscure song lyrics, book lines, or movies, like the line I used above from Flesh and the Devil (1926). Bonus including the pairing or fandom. As OP showed in their secret.

Re: So 8tracks...

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to add that you were also uploading your own mp3 files which in the end was its downfall. At some point the page had to switch to Youtube streamed music which back then randomly matched up your mp3 files with videos that maybe had the music of your file (say, a music video to the song you had in your playlist) and that's where the page started fading out because a lot of songs disappeared entirely or didn't match what was in the playlist before.

So it was a huge copyright clusterfuck when copyright on the internet was just picking up traction, but that's also why the playlists were so good, there were no copyright claims yet.

Re: So 8tracks...

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I knew there was a copyright issue at some point! There were playlists that lost tracks and that's when I (already a casual/infrequent user) just dipped. Shame about ally hat because many playlists introduced me to artists I didn't know about :/ fun while it lasted!

Re: So 8tracks...

[tabaqui]

Innnnnnnnteresting!
Well, that whole aspect of fandom just passed me right by. :D
I knew people made playlists, but I figured it was just something they did on their own with mp3s uploaded somewhere....

I like music, but I don't listen to it when I write or read (either too distracting or it just vanishes into the background), and have never felt the need to put music to my fandom experience. More power to the playlist people!

Thanks, you did a great explanation!

[(Anonymous)]

8tracks was the shit.

[(Anonymous)]

Seeing 8tracks gives me nostalgia and makes me feel like summer time in my youth. What a time. Miss 8tracka and wish I had used it properly instead of cautiously treading its shallows.

[starfleetbrat]

TMBG Flood <3

[(Anonymous)]

It's a brand new record for 1990!

[(Anonymous)]

I miss 8tracks so much, it had the best mood playlists for writing... Spotify just doesn't meet that level somehow.

[(Anonymous)]

What's weird is that 8tracks went down fully, and then went back up again! https://8tracks.com/

It still has those copyright/YouTube issues talked about upthread, and doesn't work in Canada. But I logged into an old account and a startling amount of my old likes/playlists were preserved.