I'm not the special dog mutant
Episode 30 · Audio file · November 18th, 2016 · 1 hr 2 mins
From vinyl to MP3 - how is media recorded?
- Music was made truly portable on 1 July, 1979, with the release of the Sony Walkman (Time)
- What is analogue recording? (Wikipedia)
- What is digital recording? (Wikipedia)
- Meet the 'telegraphone' & 'magnetophon', advancements in sound recording that never quite took off (Wikipedia)
- The new £5 note can play vinyl records (The Telegraph)
- The Voyager golden record (NASA)
- Playing a record with a pin & paper cup (YouTube)
- The 'compact cassette' tape was released by Philips in 1962 (Wikipedia)
- Transvision Vamp, Velveteen (Wikipedia)
- A timeline of audio formats: From 1860's 'phonautogram' to 2012's 'Opus' (Wikipedia)
- CDs were invented in 1982 (Wikipedia)
- A resource for some of the main ways we've recorded audio since olden times (Recording History)
- The history of the 8-track tape (Recording History)
- How recording tape was made, circa 1955 (Recording History)
- How is sound recorded onto magnetic tape? (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University)
- Johnny's old radio station, Wear FM, is now called Sun FM (Wikipedia)
- Video Home System, or VHS, analogue video recording, circa 1976 (Wikipedia)
- VHS 'please rewind' stickers appear to be making a comeback (Cafe Press)
- Analogue versus digital signals: What do they look like? (BBC, GCSE)
- Analogue versus digital technology & sampling (Explain That Stuff!)
- Generation loss: When stuff becomes crapper after you copy it (Wikipedia)
- A (slightly cheesy) but simple explanation of analogue versus digital sound waves (YouTube)
- Digital audio tape, or DAT (Webopedia)
- Digital audio tape (Wikipedia)
- The Hateful Eight: An explainer on 70 mm film (Nerdist)
- Lodestsar Pinot Gris (Naked Wines)
- Digital sound recording uses binary code, i.e. 1's & 0's (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- How to count in binary (Instructables)
- How to 'play back' a picture of a sound wave (Griffonage-Dot-Com)
- What is sampling rate? (Wikipedia)
- The science of sample rates: When higher is better & when it isn’t (Trust me I'm a scientist)
- The Running Man, circa 1987 (Wikipedia)
- Explanation of the 44.1 kHz CD sampling rate (Columbia University)
- Music, not sound: Why high-resolution music is a marketing ploy (Kirkville)
- How audio compression works & can you really tell the difference (MUO)
- MP3 or lossless: See if you can hear the difference with this test (LifeHacker)
- A decade of iTunes singles killed the music industry (CNN Money)
- The impact of digital recording on the music industry (The Bionic Sisters)
- The effects of digital music distribution: A graduate school research paper (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
- Jean Michel Jarre playing the laser harp wearing asbestos gloves (YouTube)
- How CDs work (How Stuff Works, Electronics)
- How CD & DVD drives work (Explain That Stuff!)
- The compact disc, or CD, was co-developed by Philips & Sony (Wikipedia)
- You can buy blank vinyl albums for $20 (Amazon)
- What is modulation & demodulation in a modem? (Quora)
- Digital to analogue conversion, or DAC (Whatis.com)
- What is a digital to analogue converter? (Wikipedia)
- Digital Versatile Disc, or DVD (Wikipedia)
- What is the difference between CD, DVD & Blu-ray discs? (Quora)
- LaserDisc (Wikipedia)
- LaserDiscs were like comically large CDs: Watch this guy insert his into a player (YouTube)
- LaserDisc FAQ (Disc Dude)
- What is Blu-ray? (Wikipedia)
- Why is the CD 74 minutes long? (Gizmodo)
- The great Blu-ray versus 'high-definition optical disc' format war of 2006-2008 (Wikipedia)
- The VHS versus Betamax format war (The Conversation)
- What was Betamax? (Wikipedia)
- The set list from the Dire Straits Gateshead Stadium concert, 13 June 1992 (setlist.fm)
- A flicker of remembrance of the Dire Straits Digital Compact Cassette promotion Johnny mentioned (Steve Hoffman Music Forums)
- The Digital Compact Cassette, or DCC, circa 1992 (Wikipedia)
- What is a MiniDisc & how does it differ from a CD? (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- An homage to the MiniDisc (Minidisc.org)
- The future of audio technology (The Inquirer)
- The future of audio recording, as predicted in 1998 (Turing Machines)
- How MP3 files work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
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