From Phonograph to Streaming

What this quiz asks

• What did Thomas Edison's first phonograph of 1877 record sound onto?
• RCA Victor introduced the 7-inch vinyl single in 1949. At what speed did it spin?
• The compact cassette was invented by the Japanese company Sony.
• Twenty years before Edison, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's 1857 'phonautograph' could do what?
• Is MP3 a lossless format that keeps every detail of the original CD audio?
• Which record company launched the 12-inch 33⅓ rpm long-playing record, the LP, in 1948?
• When a music streaming app lowers sound quality on a weak connection, what is it mainly reducing?
• Sony's first Walkman, the TPS-L2, had how many headphone sockets?
• Select ALL of these formats that store sound magnetically.
• Emile Berliner, who patented the flat-disc gramophone in 1887, was born in which country?
• When Apple's iTunes Music Store opened, how much did it charge for most single songs?
• A standard audio CD stores its sound as 16-bit samples.
• Before vinyl took over, 78 rpm records were pressed from shellac. Where does shellac come from?
• Select ALL of these audio formats that are lossless.
• The Magnetophon, the first practical tape recorder, was developed in the 1930s in which country?
• Put these moments in digital music in order, earliest first.
• Which album is usually named as the first CD to go on sale, in Japan in October 1982?
• The MP3 format was developed mainly by researchers at which German organisation?
• MP3 pioneer Karlheinz Brandenburg famously tested his encoder again and again on an a cappella song by which singer?
• About how many minutes of music could a standard audio CD hold under the original 1980 specification?