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Physical
audio recording formats
Mechanical
Music box cylinder or disc
(9th century)
Mechanical cuckoo
(early 17th century)
Punched card
(1881)
Music roll
(1883)
Analog
Grooved surface
Phonautogram
(1857)
Grooved
cylinder
Phonograph cylinder
(1877)
Graphophone
/
Dictaphone cylinder
(1887)
Perfected phonograph
/
Ediphone
(1888)
Salon cylinder
(1890s)
Stentor cylinder
(1890s)
Le Céleste cylinder
(1890s)
Gold moulded record
(1902)
Indestructible record
(1907)
Amberol record
(1908)
Blue Amberol record
(1912)
Paradis cylinder
(1913)
Grooved disc
Phonograph record
(1889)
Pathé disc
(1905)
Diamond disc
(1912)
Pathé Actuelle
(1920)
Edison Voicewriter
(late 1940s)
SoundScriber
(1945)
Audograph
(1945)
Long play
(1948)
Highway Hi-Fi
(1956)
Bandai 8ban
(2004)
Grooved tape
Tefiphon/Teficord (early 1930s), Tefifon
Dictabelt
(1947)
Sound-on-film
Phonofilm
(1919)
Tri-Ergon
(1922)
Movietone
(1926)
Photophone
(1929)
Fantasound
(1940)
Loose magnetic
wire
Wire recording
(1898)
Magnetic
wire
cartridge
Lorenz Textophon
(1942)
US Army RD-11B/GNQ-1
(1944)
Cosmos Industries MX-303A/ANQ-1
(1944)
RCA MI-12875
(1947)
RCA MI-12877
(1947)
Peirce 265B
(1951)
Peirce 330/360
(1951)
Protona Minifon P51
(1951)
Protona Minifon P55
(1955)
Protona Minifon special
(1961)
Crouzet-Jaeger cartridge
(1962)
Magnetic surface
Magnetic stripe card
(1900)
Telefunken magnetic disc
(1945)
Thermionic Products Recordon
(1948)
Record Maker Pye
(1953)
Synchrofax
(1959)
Audio High Density
(1978)
Loose (reel-to-reel)
magnetic tape
Blattnerphone
(1928)
Magnetophon
(1935)
1/4" tape
(1949)
1/2" tape
(1953)
Fullcoat magfilm
(1953)
Stripe magfilm
(1953)
1" tape
(1957)
2" tape
(1967)
3/4" tape
(1969)
3" tape
(1978)
Magnetic tape
cartridge & cassette
Optaphon
(1951)
Cousino Echo-matic
(1952)
Mohawk Message repeater cartridge
(1953)
Stenorette
(1954)
Mohawk Midgetape RL
(1955)
Dictaphone Dictet
(1957)
Rediffusion Reditune
(1957)
Saba Sabafon
(1958)
RCA tape cartridge
(1958)
Philips EL 3581
(1958)
Protona Attaché
(1959)
Fidelipac
(1959)
Cousino MR-9000
(1960)
IBM Magnabelt
(1961)
Dictaphone Travel master
(1961)
Nippon Electronic Vity cassette
(1961)
Grundig Cassette LFH 0084
(1962)
Orrtronic Tapette
(1962)
3M Scotch
(1962)
Cousino Echo-matic II
(1962)
Stereo-Pak
(1962)
Philips EL 3583
(1963)
Compact Cassette
(1963)
Grundig En3
(1964)
Sabamobil
(1964)
8-track
(1964)
Micro pack 35
(1964)
Assmann-Stuzzi Memocord
(1965)
Cantata 700
(1965)
DC-International
(1965)
Nippon Electronic Memo-call
(1965)
PlayTape
(1966)
Muntz Stereo Mini-twin
(1967)
Grundig DeJ614
(1968)
Microcassette
(1969)
Sanyo tape cartridge
(1969)
HiPac
(1971)
Steno-Cassette
(1971)
Stenorette DL
(1972)
Capitol Records Audiopak
(1972)
Elcaset
(1976)
Bandai micro cartridge
(late 1980s)
Picocassette
(1985)
Pocket Rockers
(1988)
Analog-to-digital converter
Soundstream
(1976)
X80/ProDigi
(1980)
DASH
(1982)
PCM adaptor
(1982)
DTRS
(1993)
Digital
Magnetic tape
cartridge & cassette
Digital Audio Tape
(1987)
NT
(1992)
Digital Compact Cassette
(1992)
Sound-on-film
DD
(1986)
CDS
(1990)
SDDS
(1993)
Optical disc
Compact Disc Digital Audio
(1982)
Philips CD-BGM
(1989)
MiniDisc
(1992)
DTS
(1993)
HDCD
(1995)
Super Audio CD
(1999)
DVD-Audio
(2000)
DataPlay
(2002)
Hi-MD
(2004)
DualDisc
(2004)
BD-Audio
(2008)
HFPA
(2013)
MQA-CD
(2014)
Electronic circuit
Sound chip
(late 1970s)
MP3 player
(1996)
HitClips
(2000)
Yaboom Box
(1999)
Takara E-kara
(2001)
Toymax VJ Starz
(2002)
USB flash drive
(2004)
MicroSD
(2007)
Hybrid
Mini-cassette
(1967)
U-matic
(1971)
Pioneer Artists Compact LaserDisc
(1986)
CD Video
(1987)
ADAT
(1991)
Timecode vinyl
(2001)
VinylDisc
(2007)
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