Listening to Music On Demand

We have come a long way!Shashi Bellamkonda

Gramophone

The phonograph, the graphophone, and the gramophone emerged from the workshops of independent inventors Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Emile Berliner. http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=187Image credit - http://scienceservice.si.edu/pages/093020.htm

The gramaphone or the Phonograph allowed for cutomization.. You bought the records you loved and played them to your heart’s content.I never owned a Phonograph and I am pretty sure my parents have one vinyl record from a Tamil movie.

My experience of phonographs is from neighbors who brought one from theur travels abroad.

Cassette Player

Growing up in India you had yo have someone bring you a casette player from their trips outside the country. Not only di we use this to record and play our voices and also listen to music. in casettes. I remember Cliff Richards, Grease, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini\I aslo used casette tapes with my Timex Sinclair computer to store games and dataImage courtesy : http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/matsushita_national_panasonic_rq_2106.html

All India Radio was goverment owned in India and had a show called Vividh Bharati. The popular shows I remember are :

● Binaca Geethmala that came to us from Radio Ceylon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaca_Geetmala

● Tamil requests from LR Narayan

I was also an avid listenrer to BBC World Service and Radio Australia. When we sent in a request on a post card we would get a post card in advance letting us know when our request eas being playes.

Radio DJ’s and Music

CD players / Walkman

After the Casette player came the walkman. Of course this was the first mobile device i know of. Sfter casette tapes came CDs and the Walkman adapter to CDs,

Mp3 Players / Hard Drives

The walkman did not disappear, it became a MP3 players. MP3 stands for MPEG Audio Layer III and it is a standard for audio compression that makes any music file smaller with little or no loss of sound quality (http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/MPThree.htm)

iPod/iPhone

2001 - The first ipod came into existence http://www.apple.com/pr/products/ipodhistory/

This was the first Apple product in my house bought for my ddaughter/. in 2003 the millionth iPod was sold

January 9, 2007—Apple® today introduced iPhone, combining three products—a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod® with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps—into one small and lightweight handheld device.

Streaming Apps

What's Next?

• Netflix type multi-device play• Internet of Things to set mood play• Social discovery?• Your thoughts #musicplayers @shashib