Music is Getting Smaller - From Records to Mp3 Players

The narrative player was a marvel for music enthusiasts world wide. It begun in mono though a easy amplifier of sound waves carved into a vinyl disc. This technology was astonishing at its time. The disc then advanced into dual sound waves storing left and right sounds on the singular disc on waving up and down, the other left and right. No longer would people have to go out for musical performances! They could simply listen to it in their own homes.

In the late 1970s the cassette player became the most popular audio medium, replacing big chunky records with small easy to insert tapes. These tapes used a new form of media. Rather then using analogue sound waves this new technology used digital ones and zeros to record the details of a sound wave. This sparked the starting of the digital age for music, allowing music to be stored in many different ways physically while still representing the same ones and zeros. The tape was able to do this though keeping magnetic charges to narrative ones and not having a charge to narrative zeros.

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Digital storehouse was also a huge improvement in sound quality, no longer will people rely on amplification of sound waves. These sound waves could be perfectly represented in digital form, limiting sound quality by two factors; quality of equipment, and whole of sound channels.

The next storehouse medium to hit the stage was the ageement Disc (Cd). The Cd used optical data storehouse to narrative ones and zeros. This was done by pits and pins. A pin or micro bump in the disc would reflect a laser back up to a sensor letting the Cd Player know its a one. Where as a pit or micro ditch in the disc would not reflect back up letting the Cd Player know its a zero. What differed about this form of storehouse was that while data was still stored sequentially colse to the disc. The Cd also stored a map at the starting of the Cd allowing Cd Players to know how many songs there are on the Cd, and where on the Cd they could be found. In layman's terms you could in fact jump to a singular song without fast forwarding or rewinding the Cd.

This form of audio storehouse was favored over the cassette for four main reasons, these being. One, the fact that you can 'jump' between tracks. Two, you can store much more data on a singular disc than a cassette. Three, the discs would not get warped though large amounts of use, as cassette tapes would. Four, the quality to read Cd's was much more effective and effective allowing Cd Players to convert digital audio into analogue sound with less errors.

With the rise of Personal Computers (Pc) and the internet, two things came from digital audio that would convert the way people listen to music forever. This was the quality to store music on computers and computer storehouse mediums, and the quality to swiftly and in fact download digital audio from the internet in the form of an Mp3.

The Mp3 is a form of digital audio that is compressed. The compression follows an algorithm of taking out the unneeded frequency's while leaving the song still listen able. Though this new file format digital audio clubs such as Apple, Sony and Walkman were able to invent Mp3 Players that could decompress these digital files and convert the digital audio into that of analogue sound waves. This form of digital audio storehouse trumped the rest with its quality to store hundreds and even thousands of songs on a singular device. Done though a new form of technology called solid-state flash memory, where billions of electrons are stored within a device to record digital ones and zeros. Flash memory is also much more durable than visual, magnetic or analogue storehouse mediums. Having files saved on a flash drive means you can also store video files, documents and any form of computer files on your Mp3 player.

With this new and enthralling form of audio storehouse on the rise, and microchips physically shrinking flash memory is continually getting smaller and smaller, able to hold vast amounts of songs and files. Recently designers have created wearable Mp3 Players that look great and are able to clip onto your clothes, belt or even your pocket! This funky innovation allows people to take their Mp3 player with them in any place and listen to music anywhere. Not to mention the quality to take any other files along with you in such a tiny storehouse device.

And so we head into the hereafter with our popular songs and important files in fact close to our hearts. Having the quality to listen to them on quiz, without swapping disc or cassettes. This is the biggest thing in audio so far, and will continue to upgrade over the next few years to come to be physically smaller while digitally larger.

Music is Getting Smaller - From Records to Mp3 Players