page_title: Timeline of audio formats
section_title: Timeline of audio format developments
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of audio formats / Timeline of audio format developments
caption_attribution_description: photo of inside of 8-track tape cartridge Note: below text copied from en:Talk:8-track cartridge: I've opened up one of my 8-track cartridges and will be posting a picture of its internal mechanism to replace the closed one I put there in the meantime, but it's going to show there's ONLY ONE REEL in the cartridge, so the article is wrong. Whoever wrote it must have been working from a written description, because anyone who's ever taken one apart to fix a broken tape knows there's only one reel, and the tape comes off the bottom and winds back on the top, and the tracks are next to each other on the single tape on the single reel. So will someone please rewrite the article, so when I put the picture there we won't look stupid? -- isis 20:37 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC) From this info, the image is apparently original to Isis for Wikipedia, so I am tagging it as GFDL. -- Infrogmation 18:11, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
context_page_description: An audio format is a medium for sound recording and reproduction. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content—in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format, but its wider use usually refers to the physical method used to store the data.
  Music is recorded and distributed using a variety of audio formats, some of which store additional information.
caption: The inside of an 8-track cartridge
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