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Phonautograph
It was the first device made by Thomas Edison that could record sounds. It recorded the waves as they passed through the air, but it could not play them back -
Phonograph or gramophone
A device for recording and reproducing sound. It recorded sound onto a wax-coated cylinder. -
Microphone
The most important event in the history of sound recording was the introduction of the microphone. It is used to convert the sound into an electrical signal that is later amplified to be heard. This is a electrical way of recording. There were lots of improvements and different kinds. The first mocrophones were in 1877 -
Optical recording
Early motion picture sound systems employed optical recording technology. The audio is graphically recorded on photographic film. It remains for theatrical release prints. -
Disc phonograph
The cylinder phograph evolved to the disc phonograph. This new discs were easier to transport and store -
Vinyl
With this invention discs replaced cylinders completely. -
Magnetic tape
It converts sound signals into electrical impulses, recorded analogically as variations of magnetic flux along the tape. The tape recorders are the devices that record and play back audio and video eith magnetic tape. It was popular in 1950. -
Cassetts
It is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. It was originally designed for dictation machines. -
Compact Disc (CD)
It is a digital optical disc data storage format. Created to store and play only sound recordings. Recording wasn’t allowed initially, the new ones could. It's cuality is better than the vinyls and cassette tape. -
Digital recording
It brought significant improvements in the durability of consumer recordings. The audio and video signals picked up by a device are converted into a stream of discrete numbers, representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, and chroma and luminance values for video, then recorded to a storage device. The digital audio was popular in 1990 -
MP3
It is an audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. If the compression was higher, the quality and size was lower. It was created to occupy less space and improve the transfer speed in the Internet. -
Today
Today most of the music we listen to is downloaded through our cellular phones or reproduced with different apps.
