Absolutely AWESOME. I just built a car stereo that blends an 8 track player, mp3 player and equalizer with a subwoofer and it hits HARD!

This has got to be one for Techmoan

This "8 track" player is brilliant!

What an incredible amount of dedication!. Kool little project. I tip my hat to you sir, GREAT JOB !

It's very refreshing to not hear the normal KZfaq montage music. Great selection!!

Ok, tell us the truth, the button you didn't touch on the demo is REVERSE! Great work, thanks for sharing.

I'm equal parts impressed and horrified that you made an adult version of those toy cd players from the 90s

I LOVE this idea! Brilliant work! I grew up in the 70's with 8-track tapes and players. When I was about 15 I managed to get a non-working recorder and fixed it. One of my strongest memories was a Ford Cortina estate (station wagon) that my dad had. The speakers were in the back of the car and were fixed with double sided tape and they were constantly falling down.

Bring back The 8 Tracks. Long live The 70s. Whoo.

Well done sir. Unbelievable creativity to simulate the 8 track not in just the virtual mode but a bit of quasi quasi-mechanical feel as well. How far we have come since the 8 track days. The modern technology that enabled this project is a powerful microcontroller, a sound card (Creative Labs sound card in the 90s cost me $400), a QR code scanner, a 3D printer along with the CAD SW, and a bunch of various SWs like sound editor, Python, etc.

Next, build a cartridge that has a small square display on the side and a long display and two buttons on the back edge. Add two pogo pins in the tape transport area for power. When you plug in the cartridge, it powers up from the pogo pins, displays a cart name on the back edge display and the QR code for that cart on the side display. The two buttons can switch forward and back in the list of carts.

Awesome build! I really like when people are trying to save old formats. Very clever design that surprised me greatly! 👍

This is like a cartridge player, from 45 years ago, at which time I had the Ampex brand. Very few people know. Thank you so much!

Very cool, I am a big quad fan but i am adamantly all analog. BUT, I like that you are thinking outside of the "cartridge" .

Fascinating. I had a quad setup back in the day, a Lafayette 4 channel receiver, Garrard tt with 2 carts for the various quad lp formats, an 8 track quad recorder/player and a casette deck. The casette deck was a Lafayette, I don't recall the brand of the 8 track. Everything went into a couple of RussSound switching boxes and the wiring in the back was an absolute nightmare!

What a great video! I play Q8 tapes from time to time, and really got a kick out of watching this.

That a nice unit. Very well explained. When Quad us set up right, it sounds great

Fun project. I picked up a 8-Track play/record unit a few years back. Don't know what I am going to do with it but I could resist having the record function.

Did you spend 8 years since your last video? Your other video of a video player inside of a VHS cassette is at another level.

YOU GOOO BRUH, excellent work on a deserving technology that society abandoned!

So Very Cool -- accelerating from Wild to Outstanding

Very clever! I love 8-track tapes, but I always wondered what it would be like if the format was upgraded and given more R&D. Imagine if you had 8-track tapes with Metal/chrome tape, or a head that was non-mechanical and could switch programs electronically (to help reduce alignment issues).

Nice video, very comfy, looking forward to more!

That is indeed the coolest !!!! Great idea too!!

Awesome 8 track player!!! I would love to have that!!! Excellent job ❤

My dad bought a "Quad in a box" Capehart system. I was a kid but urged him to buy the beautiful Marantz receivers at the time. I guess he liked the price and the convenience of the quad in a box. It sounded awful. The only real quad it could play was the Q8 tapes. Otherwise is matrixed the rear channels with no bass I remember the only Q8 tape we had was Ray Conniff doing cover songs. I bought that album on SACD recently and played it through a Sony Blu Ray and my Onkyo Surround Receiver. It sounds way better than the Capehart quad system ever was.

Very cool. Well done.

Awesome project! 8-Track had two major problems that I think kept from becoming an audiophile grade format. 1) Moving the head. To do this properly would require a precision machined device. You can't do that at a consumer price point, hence the imprecise stamped sheet metal assemblies that were used. 2) The use of plastic pinch rollers in the cartridge with plastic bearings. To get really low wow and flutter, you again need a tensioned rubber pinch roller on ball bearings. There was a two track broadcast cartridge continuous loop format that was similar to 8-Track. This was for advertising spots and 45 record length music recordings. But the head was stationary and the pinch roller was part of the transport assembly and swung up into the cartridge when one was inserted. I have no evidence of this but it would not surprise me if the 8-Track grew out of a broadcast audio cart machine.

Diabolical! And Brilliant! Fantastic work! 😎👍 This hits many of my own passions, both professional and avocational. I'm an electrical/computer engineer. Professionally, I write embedded software. My hobbies include vintage audio (particularly open reel tape decks), vintage computers, Unix/Linux, ham radio, etc. The Raspberry Pi is definitely a favorite. I still need to dive into 3D printing, though! Bravo! Congratulations on your totally cool project!

Loving your work!

What an awesome device!

LOOKS SUUUUUPER COOL!

So very cool. Well done.

That is cool as hell. I actually have one of those Realistics (the ones on the bottom) among several others. I've never seen a quad 8'track, but I have always loved the Phase4 vinyl records.

That's a funny project! Well done. I think tried to keep the original looks as the close as possible to the maximum extend to reusing parts. For example the original metalic front of the Realistic's, combine them into one frontplate. Reusing cabinets and parts of old equipment instead of 3D printing is a good thing. Lately I made a 3 channel motor controller inside a HDMI player case, looks great! The nice thing of newer equipment is that they mostly work with a remote control and the front plate is free of knobs so it possible to add your own knobs and switches.

I had 8-tracks (and a recorder to make my own) back then, but the fatal flaw of 8-track tapes is the graphite backing material. Eventually it wears off and then the tape becomes harder to pull.

Cool job :)

Nice video. Waiting for more content

Super genius ......love this concept

nice, great job.

That is bad ass!! Love it!!

Just genial and amazing!

So cool!

very cool 😊

Very nice.

Very good job on this player I love 8 track tapes. I would like to see a Bluetooth 8 track tape made from a Bluetooth cassette tape.

Good work, these projects are a lot fun, in a few moths I will have next next 8 Track record deck built, with adaptive record bias and the expanded noise reduction. As I just can not find any records from 1970's that any good, that started designing my own.

Really cool project! I can't take my eyes off the Digital Terminal in the background, though. I hope you'll do a video on that!

Great video always love it when projects mix modern computing technology with vintage audio gear. Btw did you ever consider just encoding time codes on the tape it self and use that to control the digital playback? I did that for a project with audio cassettes and it worked well.

Incredibly clever! Just curious if you considered using the Pi's HDMI output for the multichannel audio. As a fellow quadraphonic fan, I've found that Kodi running on a Pi 4 works well for that purpose, though maybe it isn't customizable enough for your needs.

Far out man !

Lol that is soo cool!

Ah, pretty cool. I was thinking you were going to reveal that the carts had a hidden SD card with the file, which in some ways I feel would be less of a cheat than the QR codes! You could also 3D-print a cradle to hold the tape rather than use an old machine -- after all, it doesn't have to have much precision.

Outstanding work, BorisDigital ! Have you considered offering your plans as means for others to build their own? Would think this would be a fun project for many to honor your work!

I love my 8-track

Hi. Nice idea for the project and great execution. You mentioned also network streamer, where to find movie with that build?

Interesting build, my first though would be to put the music storage inside the tape shells, although I take it your keeping your tapes original. I'm kind of interested in the terminal/computer behind you, I looked on your channel but nothing there. Also amazed that there seems to be no negative comments about you stripping the two old players.

you can use an hdmi audio splitter with 7.1 (7.1 = 8 channels) audio output to.

You are a genius. How much would it be to build some or mass produce and sell them?

Really an awesome bit of kit you got there. But where do you get an 8 track drive that doesn't stretch or damage the tape? All the drives back in day seemed to suffer from that fatefully flaw.

Genuinely excellent! I bet Mat over on the Techmoan channel would wet himself at the chance to play with something like this. I think I might try to contact him. All the best. PS: There would be both pro's and con's and you may be perfectly happy already - might an NFC detector be an alternate to using QR codes?

Apologies for the unrelated question: That terminal in the background looks like a modern recreation. What is it? A DEC Mini..? Many thanks for any answers.

one thing in the betacam decks the head drums wear out but the liner audio tracks are ok get this it is safe to use betamax in the betacam decks if the video heads are bad note i have not seen any bad video heads in any of the deck have picked up betacam are tanks

hi this is ace i have 100's of bodies have moved tape out of i just have not put them on ebay yet i have alot of 4 track tapes i am lucky i have a c cart recorder i made as well from a eu back ground player it's all older men doing this i talked to

What were those tapes you were playing? Were they from the actual tapes i.e. digitized.... it was cool instrumental music...?

If you're just using QR codes, you could custom build a "multi-album" cart for your device... A strip (or loop) of QR codes inside an empty cart, some kind of switch (or lever/button/etc) out front of the cart to identify and select which album you want to hear, and with a hole (or window) where the reader is. There's also an easy way to digitize SQ format quad records for the above idea/device, but would take too long to explain here. Imagine slipping in an 8-track and getting the full range from quad RECORDS?(!)

IS QUAD GONNA COME BACK??? I direly need stuff to play on my sansui

If I were able, I'd of done the same thing. I've dreamed of similar things. How about a program that automatically divides an album into 4 parts, and automatically fades out, clicks and fades back in four programs. I'd use it for making actual recodings on 8track carts.

Python with Containers?? wow... what used to be super computer tech used in a DIY hobby... and the QR code reader for 7$... image recognition that alone would have cost 10Gs in the 90s.. nuts..

I noticed you are showing four programs while mentioning quad cartridges, Is this an editing mistake? I know for a fact that quad tapes have 2 programs only not 4 programs.

Are you selling these yet

Nah, Ill just stick to my original tapes and player. Don't digitize, just enjoy. I enjoy fixing my tapes. I never had any just wear out.I let a dired out dragging tape play for a week and it only got better. No high end sound was lost, It glazed the tape and it also got quieter.

How much? :-)

That, was not the No Secrets album! L.

hi all this when i find a quad betacam sp deck will do e job i have a mate he's got 100's of quad 8 track i have seen the no lies i was getting up set fixing the tape for him you are very right about them get this a first i have a tascam 38 i done very like what you have here no need to make 3 d parts i had to put the main pcb in a solder bath to get all the parts of and start to re make the logic with relays and power ic's i put all the power ic's back where they were now the capstan motors work 5v dc tells the power ic's what todo note the deck has 2 speeds i lost my otari 5050 mk III to bad to fix i wonder how you did the deck ace is the word the tascam 38 has all the audio cards ready in side i have had to do alot of repair work on mate deck i bet be on my back about your video here 100%

So… NOT a tape player… NO SALE!

Very impressive and slightly pointless: the best kind of creation.

4:54 What isb he name of the song? It zure doesn't sound like The Doors

*Promo SM* 💕

beware there's alot out there that don't like us re working decks i have a mate tascam ninja yes that one i am one he all ways on mail to me way don't i have a channel like you RED TAPE IS IN THE WAY i sound bad i would have to have a voice changer to get around it jim browning he wears a mask

Why bother building that rubbish in 2023...8 track just sounds so muddy!! Pointless format 🗑️👎