PORTABLE AUDIO

DEVICES
MICHAEL FRASER

MIGUEL SANTOS

FRIDAY DECEMBER 11, 2009

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

S What is an Portable Audio Device?

S The beginning of the portable audio device.

S The introduction to cassette players.

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S Sony Walkman and Sony Discman. )

S Today's music devices.

S Apple iPod.

S Different type of players and What they can do.

 WHAT IS AN PORTABLE
AUDIO DEVICE?

S “A portable audio player, sometimes referred to as an

MP3 player, is a consumer electronic device that has the
primary function of storing, organizing and playing audio
files.” (3)

S MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Moving Picture Experts Group

Layer-3 more commonly referred to as MP3

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 THE BEGINNING OF THE
PORTABLE AUDIO DEVICE

S Regency TR-1

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 THE BEGINNING OF THE
PORTABLE AUDIO DEVICE

S Regency TR-1

S 1954, I.D.E.A. released the very first portable transistor radio.

S The Regency came out in a variety of colors over the years.

TR-1 tuned stations by a simple gold dial and played through a
low-fidelity monophonic speaker.

S It retailed for $49.95 back in the day, which would make it cost
around $325 in today’s dollars.

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 THE BEGINNING OF THE
PORTABLE AUDIO DEVICE

S KLH Model 11 Portable

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 THE BEGINNING OF THE
PORTABLE AUDIO DEVICE

S KLH Model 11 Portable

S 1962, Henry Kloss introduced the KLH Model 11 portable

stereo.

S the first transistorized record player.

S with the changer/amplifier and two speakers folding into

a three-piece suitcase

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 THE INTRODUCTION TO
CASSETTE PLAYERS

S Cassette players were designed by the Phillips

corporation in 1963 and sold to the public in 1965.

S They were originally meant to record vocal dictation but

later evolved to replace record players in home
entertainment systems.(9)

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 CASSETTE PLAYERS

S Philips Compact Cassette

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 CASSETTE PLAYERS

S Philips Compact Cassette

S In 1965, Philips released the first ever compact cassette

tape.

S Originally designed for recording dictations and other

boring stuff, the cassette recorded
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up 45 minutes of
sound on single 1/8-inch tape.
 THE WALKMAN

S Sony Walkman TPS-L2

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 THE WALKMAN

S Sony Walkman TPS-L2

S 1979, Sony released the first truly self-contained portable music

system, the TPS-L2 Walkman cassette player.

S The Walkman’s real innovation was its size, measuring only

slightly larger than a cassette tape itself.

S Featured a pair of portable, lightweight headphones and operating

on AA batteries, it ushered in a new era of portability.

S The original Walkman retailed for around $274 US dollars today.

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 SONY DISCMAN

Sony Discman D-50

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 SONY DISCMAN

S 1984, on the one year anniversary of the introduction of

compact discs, Sony introduced their D-50 portable CD
player, the first ever portable digital music player.

S Just slightly larger than a CD case, the player offered all

of the great audio quality that digital recordings had to
offer.

S The CD industry experienced sudden growth with the

number of CD titles available dramatically increasing.
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TODAY’S MUSIC PLAYERS

S MP3 Player

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TODAY’S MUSIC PLAYERS

S MP3 Player

S Digital sampling is used to convert an audio wave to a

sequence of binary numbers that can be stored in a
digital format, such as MP3.
S Common features of all MP3 players are a memory
storage device, such as flash memory or a miniature hard
disk drive, an embedded processor, and an audio codec
microchip to convert the compressed file into an
analogue sound signal.
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APPLE IPOD

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 APPLE IPOD

S The iPod line can play several audio file formats including MP3,
AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, and Audible audio book.

S The iPod Photo introduced the ability to display JPEG, BMP, GIF,
TIFF, and PNG image file formats.

S Fifth and sixth generation iPod Classics, as well as third

generation iPod Nanos, can additionally play MPEG-4, and
QuickTime video formats

S As of September 9, 2009, more than 220,000,000 iPods had been

sold worldwide, making it the best-selling digital audio player
series in history

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 DIFFERENT TYPES OF
MUSIC PLAYERS
Flash drive player
Hard drive player

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 DIFFERENT TYPES OF
MUSIC PLAYERS

S Flash player

S Flash-based Players: These are non-mechanical solid state

devices that hold digital audio files on internal flash memory or
removable flash media called memory cards.
S Due to technological advancements in flash memory, these
originally low-storage devices are now available commercially
ranging up to 64 GB.
S Basic MP3 player functions are commonly integrated into USB
flash drives.

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 DIFFERENT TYPES OF
MUSIC PLAYERS

S Hard drive

S Hard drive-based Players or Digital Jukeboxes: Devices

that read digital audio files from a hard disk drive (HDD).

S These players have higher capacities currently ranging

up to 250 GB.

S At typical encoding rates, this means that tens of

thousands of songs can be stored on one player.

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 WHAT THEY CAN DO

S Portable audio devices today can do pretty much

anything.

S Play music, watch videos, view images, surf the internet,

and play video games.

S There also being used to replace certain other products.

Replacing camera’s as most new portable audio devices
are starting to be equipped with a camera and also a
voice recorder.
 SUMMARY AND
CONCLUSION

S Portable audio devices have gone from radios, to cassette

players, to CDs to now just a little memory card the size of a 2
dollar coin.

S If your interested just for a few hundred songs then go with a

smaller flash player, if you want to carry your whole music
library then purchase a hard drive player.

S Altogether there are so many portable audio devices made

today by different companies its hard to decide which one will
be carrying your music library.
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