MP3 player
The Mp3 Player: Past and Present
Remy JirekThe mp3 player can really be thought of as beginning way back in 1877. There were no iPod car accessory packs or discount iPod accessory stores back then, but it was the beginning of recording music. Thomas Edison could not have dreamed that recording and listening to music would be as popular as it is today. Even though the process of recording music has gone through some ups and downs, mp3's are currently the cheapest and fastest way for people to share and listen to their favorite songs.
If one wanted to write about the history of the mp3 player, one could find good reason to begin in the year 1877. That was the year when Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
I doubt that Edison ever envisioned the mass appeal of the mp3 player, but he certainly knew that people would like a way to record music. Music has been an important part of Western culture for quite some time.
Once electronic buffs saw the appeal of the phonograph, then they began to think of new ways to introduce more music into everyday life. They did not think back then about anything that would resemble an mp3 player; they instead set-about creating a way for the public to send music over the radio waves. They then produced the first public radio programs.
The Depression somewhat slowed the pace at which technology could advance, but by 1948 the public enjoyed a new and improved record. By then Columbia Records had found a way to make a long-playing record. A year later RCA introduced the first 45's.
In 1965 the public found it had a way to record the music played in churches and in private homes. That year the public found that stores were carrying devices capable of putting music on an 8-track tape. One young teenager, a girl living outside of Philadelphia, listened that year to a tape in the home of a neighbor. That girl, now a professional writer, has chosen to write about the history of the mp3 player.
By 1979, the world had moved much closer to the appearance of the mp3 player with the introduction of a device known as the Sony Walkman. The Walkman made it easy to listen to radio music at almost any time and in almost any location.
By 1983 CD technology had allowed for the compression of musical sound bites. Of course the inventors of that technology did not just sit-back and listen to a stack of CD's. Instead, those innovators developed the format for the mp3. The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany patented that technology in 1989.
By 1998 the world had begun to hear the word "mp3 player." By then the public had learned that such a device could carry as many songs as 20 CD's. That single, small device could hold up to 1,000 mega-bytes of music. It wasn't long before everyone wanted an mp3 player.
I doubt that Edison ever envisioned the mass appeal of the mp3 player, but he certainly knew that people would like a way to record music. Music has been an important part of Western culture for quite some time.
Once electronic buffs saw the appeal of the phonograph, then they began to think of new ways to introduce more music into everyday life. They did not think back then about anything that would resemble an mp3 player; they instead set-about creating a way for the public to send music over the radio waves. They then produced the first public radio programs.
The Depression somewhat slowed the pace at which technology could advance, but by 1948 the public enjoyed a new and improved record. By then Columbia Records had found a way to make a long-playing record. A year later RCA introduced the first 45's.
In 1965 the public found it had a way to record the music played in churches and in private homes. That year the public found that stores were carrying devices capable of putting music on an 8-track tape. One young teenager, a girl living outside of Philadelphia, listened that year to a tape in the home of a neighbor. That girl, now a professional writer, has chosen to write about the history of the mp3 player.
By 1979, the world had moved much closer to the appearance of the mp3 player with the introduction of a device known as the Sony Walkman. The Walkman made it easy to listen to radio music at almost any time and in almost any location.
By 1983 CD technology had allowed for the compression of musical sound bites. Of course the inventors of that technology did not just sit-back and listen to a stack of CD's. Instead, those innovators developed the format for the mp3. The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany patented that technology in 1989.
By 1998 the world had begun to hear the word "mp3 player." By then the public had learned that such a device could carry as many songs as 20 CD's. That single, small device could hold up to 1,000 mega-bytes of music. It wasn't long before everyone wanted an mp3 player.
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