History of Music formats

History of music formats 1877 Phonograph cylinder were the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. The first test used tin foil wrapped around a hand-cranked cylinder. It was invented by Thomas Edison, an american inventor and businessman. Compact cassette tape is a magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Compact cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a pre-recorded cassette, or as fully recordable "blank" cassette. In 1962, Philips invented the Compact Cassette medium for audio storage, introducing it in Europe on 30 August 1963 (at the Berlin Radio Show). 1963 1895 Gramophone record is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride (previõusly Shellac) disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. Emile Berliner, he is best known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English). 1982 Compact Disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology. Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the mid-to-late 1970s. The two companies then collaborated to produce a standard format and related player technology which was made commercially available in 1982. 1948 Vinyl record, or the LP (Long Play), is a format of a phonograph record, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. There were few minor refinements with the exception of the addition of stereophonic sound capability. 1993 MP3 is an audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as part of its MPEG-1 standard and later extended in the MPEG-2 standard. The first MPEG subgroup- Audio group was formed by several teams of engineers at Fraunhofer IIS, University of Hannover, AT&T-Bell Labs, Thomson-Brandt, CCETT, and others. Transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954 they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they wented. 1954 ...