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History of music players
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Phonograph
Gramophone was invented by Emlie Berliner he was the first inventor to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat discs or records. The first records were made of glass. Later on they were made of zinc and eventually plastic. -
Gramaphone
Phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison first method of recording and playing back sound. -
Records
he Victrola model record player was introduced by RCA Victor. This record player had variable turntable speeds to accommodate the already wide range of records being produced at the time. Two years later Columbia Records introduced the first double-sided phonograph records. -
Long Playing Records/Album
The 33 1/3 LP was released by Columbia Records. The preferred disc for singles became the large-hole 45rpm records by RCA Victor in 1949. The 45rpm record was 7". In 1952 the Recording Industry Association of America was formed. There was the 33-1/3rpm LP, the 78rpm, and the 45rpm at 12", 10" and 7". in 1955 the 12" became more popular than the original 10" LPs. -
Multi track record
it was the first recorder -
Cassett tape
Phillips develops a compact stereo cassette tape and player. The cassette tape became the most popular form of music media for several years. In the 70s it became possible to record your own music off of records or the radio onto a blank cassette tape. -
Compact Disc
first released in Japan, one year later (1983) came out in USA, in (1999) CD’s became recordable. -
Napster
allowed people to easily share song files with each other. This new program led to the music industry's drop in recording sales and accusations of total copyright violations. Although Napster was shut down by court order in 2001, it created the idea of free online file sharing and now there are several other programs that can be downloaded for free to get any music from anyone. -
Ipod
The first 3 Classic iPods ranged between 5 and 40GB. After the release of the third classic Apple released the first iPod mini. The minis were available in 5 different colors and had a storage capacity of 4GB. After the mini's the fourth classic iPod was release which now held photos transferred from your computer via USB. Next came the iPod shuffle, a faceless iPod that used flash memory and only held 1GB. -
Itunes
allows the iPod user to manage audio and video on their computer. in iTunes, several things are possible. You can organize music into playlists with one or more libraries, edit file information, record CDs, copy files to a digital audio player, purchase music and video from the built in music store, download free podcasts, backup songs onto a CD or DVD, and encode music into a number of different audio formats.
