Blogpost 2: The history of music distribution

AUGUST 7,1877 – THE PHONOGRAPH

In 1877 Thomas Edison, Eldridge R. Johnson, Emile Berliner invented phonograph for the public to enjoy music produced by artist.

AUGUST 20,1914-AIR RADIO

First time music was played through a record player was through a radio station invented in 1914 for everyone to hear.

VINYL – RECORD AND RECORD PLAYER - 1930S

vinyl records were introduced in the 1930s that the format started to become seriously popular and a big money-spinner. ​

Vinyl remained the dominant format until the late 1970s, when the sound quality of cassette tapes had improved sufficiently to allow them to rival records. ABBA’s ‘The Visitors’ became the first commercially released music compact disc in 1981, and by the early 1990s, CDs had become the dominant format.

AUGUST 21,1958-YEAR OF CASSETTE TAPES:

This was invented by Phillips. Instead of flipping a LP record you were able to push in a cassette tape in and listen to your music. This was very convenient for the public to use and quicker because you did not have to go home and play on your record player.

DECEMBER 30,1958-WALKMAN

• First walk man! Which meant walking with your music.​

• Nobutoshi Kihara from Sony invented the Walkman for people to portably walk with cassette tapes and listen to music.

DECEMBER 24,1980-DIGNITAL AGE: THE COMPACT DISC

James Russell invented optical digital recording.By people were able to record their music and burn it on the CD. No not physically burn it but through the Giant computer desktops.

JANUARY 26,1986-HISTORY OF THE MP3

Karlheinz Brandenburg when challenged as a college student to figure out how to transmit music over digital phone lines. Then he invented the Mp3 audio.​

OCTOBER 8,1986-PORTABLE CD

After James Russell created the CD player, innovators like Sony created a portable Player convenient for the public to walk and listen to music by putting a cd in and pressing play or if desired they can also rewind and forwards within a touch of a button.

MAY 7,1995-MPEG

After Karlheinz Brandenburg created the Mp3. The moving motion picture group decided since the human ear could not hear certain sound from the radio the introduced mashing audio into digital coding so that audio can be complex and clear to hear.

OCTOBER 7,1997-THE TIME OF THE NAPSTER

​The founder of this product were Sean Parker, Shawn Fanning, and Jhon Fanning. The Napster is a peer to peer music sharing internet service. This made it easier for society to download music through the internet. There have been upgrades like itunes , frostwire , and etc...

NOVEMBER20,2001-THE APPLE IPOD:

Of course, it is the market destroyer, the Apple Ipod. This can be thought of an improvement of the portable cd player except digital audio was downloaded on this device and can be played within a touch on the pad of the device. This was created by Steve Jobs.

DECEMBER 16,2005-REVOLUTION OF STREAMING MUSIC:

The founders of pandora are Tim Westergren, Will Glaser,John Kraft. The world of streaming that we know of today in 2015 was created to be convenient for the public to listen faster available music through any device.

FEBRUARY 14TH 2006-THE ESTABLISHMENT OF YOUTUBE

By 2006, YouTube had 40 million videos, almost 6 million people viewing the website every day. In just 15 months time after its establishment, it has surpassed its competitors such as MSN video and Google Video, and has become the most visited website in this century.

Despite the internet being how most people consume music nowadays, I think there will always be a place for physical recordings such as CDs and vinyl. Even though nowadays everything could be put on electronic devices, there will be people that collect CDs and spend time on it. I consider that internet has made our life more convenient, but CDs are more formal and have more deeper meanings inside - not only the music itself, but also the memory about it.