Audio storage
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Audio storage refers to techniques and formats used to store audio with the goal to reproduce the audio later using audio signal processing to something that resembles the original.
Audio storage techniques:
Analogue recording media:
- Phonograph (analogue sound in groove)
- Magnetic analogue recording media
- Wire recording
- Analog magnetic tape
- Reel-to-reel tape
- Broadcast cartridge (Fidelipac)
- 4-track cartridge
- 8-track cartridge
- PlayTape (Miniature 2-track tapes)
- Compact audio cassette and cassette deck
- Microcassette
Digital recording media:
- Digital audio tape (DAT)
- Digital compact cassette (DCC)
- Compact disc (CD)
- Minidisc (MD)
- Audio file format
- any computer storage, for example digital flash memory cards
- DVD-Audio (DVD-A)
- Super audio compact disc (SACD)
- DataPlay
| Audio format | |
|---|---|
| Analog |
Phonograph cylinder (1870s) | Gramophone record (1895) | Reel-to-reel audio tape recording (1940s) | Vinyl record (1948) | Compact Cassette (1963) | 8-track cartridge (1964) | Microcassette (1969) | Elcaset (1976) |
| Digital |
Compact Disc (1982) | Digital Audio Tape (1987) | MiniDisc (1991) | Digital Compact Cassette (1992) | Super Audio CD (1999) | DVD-Audio (2000) |
