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  2. Track listing - Wikipedia

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    A hidden track (sometimes called a ghost track, secret track or unlisted track) is a song or a piece of audio that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record, or other recorded medium, in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener. In some cases, the piece of music may simply have been left off the track listing, while in ...

  3. Soundtrack - Wikipedia

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    16 mm film showing a sound track at right [1]. A soundtrack [2] is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that ...

  4. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Album - Wikipedia

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    Material (music or sounds) is stored on an album in sections termed tracks. A music track (often simply referred to as a track) is an individual song or instrumental recording. The term is particularly associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks; the term is also used for other formats such as EPs and singles ...

  6. Backing track - Wikipedia

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    A solo steel drum player performs with the accompaniment of pre-recorded backing tracks that are being played back by the laptop on the left of the photo.. A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that ...

  7. 8-track cartridge - Wikipedia

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    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 until the late 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music.

  8. Click track - Wikipedia

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    A click track is a series of audio cues used to synchronize sound recordings, sometimes for synchronization to a moving image.The click track originated in early sound movies, where optical marks were made on the film to indicate precise timings for musical accompaniment.

  9. History of multitrack recording - Wikipedia

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    AMPEX 440 (two-track, four-track) and 16-track MM1000 Scully 280 eight-track recorder using 1 inch (25 mm) tape at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Multitrack recording of sound is the process in which sound and other electro-acoustic signals are captured on a recording medium such as magnetic tape, which is divided into two or more audio tracks that run parallel with each other.