music timeline 1

  • radio

    Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio, sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves intended to reach a wide audience.
  • analogue synthesizer

    An analog synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically.
  • magnetic tape

    Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on magnetic wire recording.
  • vinyl

    An analog audio recording pressed in vinyl. The 45 RPM record holds one song per side, while 33 1/3 RPM "Long Play" records hold an entire album (see LP).
  • electric guitar

    An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.
  • hi fi

    Hi-fi systems generally comprise 2 loudspeakers. They are essentially designed for listening to music which signal (sound source) is intended to be listened to in stereo (known as 2.0), i.e. a right channel and a left channel. For optimal music reproduction, it is often best to choose floorstanding loudspeakers.
  • music video

    A music video is a short film or video, of variable length, that integrates a song or album with imagery that is produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings.
  • cassettes

    The Compact Cassette or Musicassette, also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
  • midi

    MIDI is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
  • portable cd player

    A portable CD player is a portable audio player used to play compact discs. Portable CD players are powered by batteries and they have a 1/8" headphone jack into which the user plugs a pair of headphones.
  • digital mixing

    A digital mixer means you are dealing with digital audio. Similar to digital recording, a digital mixer takes the live audio received from microphones and converts it to a digital signal, resulting in a cleaner sound.
  • logic

    It was originally created in the early 1990s as Notator Logic, or Logic, by German software developer C-Lab which later went by Emagic. American technology company Apple acquired Emagic in 2002 and renamed Logic to Logic Pro.
  • ADAT

    Alesis Digital Audio Tape is a magnetic tape format used for the recording of eight digital audio tracks onto the same S-VHS tape used by consumer VCRs.
  • mp3

    MP3 is a digital music format for creating high-quality sound files. It has transformed the way people buy and listen to music.
  • limewire

    LimeWire is a discontinued free software peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, OS X, Linux and Solaris. LimeWire uses the gnutella network as well as the BitTorrent protocol.
  • youtube

    YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. It was launched in February 2005
  • spotify

    Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is the world's largest music streaming service provider, with over 365 million monthly active users
  • apple music

    Apple Music is a music and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing playlists.