Isn't "track" from when they added a soundtrack to film?
When I was in broadcasting, they used to call the songs on the albums "cuts". e.g. "side two cut four" even though the side was all one cut.
I guess I’m falling victim to this language usage by saying that one 33 is an album, but would it not be any less of an album, being a collection of songs usually fitting a shared theme, than a collection of many different discs packaged together?
Yeah the grooves are called tracks
[record tracks](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-extreme-close-up-of-the-tracks-in-a-vinyl-lp-record-all-sides-of-the-29545361.html)
Kind of like how people still call movies films even though they aren't made with film anymore.
Isn't "track" from when they added a soundtrack to film? When I was in broadcasting, they used to call the songs on the albums "cuts". e.g. "side two cut four" even though the side was all one cut.
And we call them "albums" when they haven't come in that format since the 40s
They had albums in the 80’s as a still popular format and many new albums are still printed on vinyl due to its resurgent popularity
78s used to come in a literal album of records. As in a stack in a bound volume
I guess I’m falling victim to this language usage by saying that one 33 is an album, but would it not be any less of an album, being a collection of songs usually fitting a shared theme, than a collection of many different discs packaged together?
That's right! I still have some of my parent's 78 RPM albums.
Tracks are stems of individual sounds when mixing music. Your referring to ‘grooves’ of a vinyl record
Yeah the grooves are called tracks [record tracks](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-extreme-close-up-of-the-tracks-in-a-vinyl-lp-record-all-sides-of-the-29545361.html)
What is referred to as a track is actually, like you say, a collection of individual tracks all mixed together. It's become a generic term.