By: Alec Roscoe
Music
Orchestra
Personal Musicians
Only wealthy families could afford this
Recorded Music
1877: Phonograph by Thomas Edison
Recorded and played back
Used tin cylinder
Recorded Music
1894: Emile Berliner Gramophone
78’s
45’s (singles)
33 1/3 LP (Long Playing)
1956: First Stereo LP
Mobile Music
1979: Sony Walkman
First mobile cassette player
Fashionable
Analog
Mobile Music
1982: CD (compact disc)
Held lots of music
Had track beginnings
Digital medium
Mobile Music
1998: First MP3 Player
MPMan F10
1998: First Commercially Successful MP3 Player
Diamond Multimedia
Rio PMP300
Showed potential for future MP3 players
Mobile Music
MPMan F10
Rio PMP300
Mobile Music
2001: Apple iPod
First mainstream MP3 player
Had music infrastructure
Convenient
Fashionable
Mobile Music
2002: Cloud based radio
Pandora and Last.fm
Not able to choose specific tracks
Future of Mobile Music
2008: Device with monthly/free subscription
Access to all music
Amazon Cloud Player
mSpot
Spotify
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