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History of portable Music
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Regency TR-1
The Regency TR-1 was the first transitor radios, but not the first music players. The Regency's compact idea and formula was then put into the Sony Walkman and the displayed the same sound quality. It first sold for around $50 -
The Walkman Porable Cassette Player
The Walkman was introduced by Sony on July,1 1979, it was 14 ounces and blue and silver. It also had headphones that came with it and it had 2 headphone jacks, so two people could listen at once. It was released for $200 U.S.D. and was revolutionary to its time. -
The Discman
The Discman, also made by Sony, was a Compact Disc (CD) player and revolutionized the industry with bringing in CDs and being around 6yrs ahead of the industry. The industry had just started to produce CDs around 3yrs before the release. It costed around $350 -
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The discman Evolution
The Discman was updated and update until it was a small protable disc player that Sony still produces todday but hasn't been updated since 1995. -
The MP3 and the MPman
The MP3 file and MPman started growing around the same time, but Fraunhofer Society released the file first and it spread like wildfire through the internet and then they released the MPman and people could just load their songs onto it and go. The MPman sold for 250USD -
Pandora
Pandora was a new point of view on the music world. Pandora takes guesses on what you are going to like and you "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" music and it uses that iformation to estimated what you might like. -
Ipod and Itunes
The Ipod and Itunes were huge new developments. the Ipod Shuffle was very portable and easy to carry around, the ipod nano had a screen and showed which album was playing. Finally, the orginal Ipod had the touch screen and was very impressive with all the things it did including playing music -
Spotify
Spotify was another application that had a new idea. Paying a subscrition fee you can have all the free music from most artist and also allowing you to make playlist. -
The future
I think the next inavation of portable music will be msuic that is in the clound that you load on to a wrist band and that you can plug your headphones inand and listen to.
