Sentences with phrase «digital audio tape»

In a fast - changing world, it is hard enough to predict whether people will be listening to music on compact discs, digital audio tapes or some other system next year, let alone anticipate which technologies will shape the global economy decades from now.

Not exact matches

The project will update an analog - based taping system to high definition digital recordings that produce higher quality video and audio, Oddo said.

Conversely, the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is irreproachable; equalized for home - theatre playback, the track immerses the viewer from the opening frames — and is sometimes a bit too much like a high - end relaxation tape for its own good, soothing the viewer past a trancelike state into light snoozing.

This could be a tape recorder, a digital audio recorder, a computer with a microphone, or an audio recording feature on a phone.

Hoopla launched in 2013 as a digital offshoot of Midwest Tape, a company that has been distributing audio books and music CDs to public libraries for decades.

And they'll give you two free audio books — the digital version of a «book on tape» — if you sign up for a 30 - day free trial!

The sound collection includes all forms of recorded sound, extending from the early days of wax cylinder recordings to today's digital creations, with recorded music, oral histories, lectures and many other types of recording held on formats such as shellac and vinyl records, reel to reel tape, audio cassettes and CDs.

The Jazz Museum at the Old Mint held a sampling of the sometimes naughty, little - known collages that jazz great Louis Armstrong made in the final two decades of his life, as well as Satch Hoyt's tambourines linked into chains attached to mirrors to form endless columns, or halved and assembled into crosses reminiscent of the city's famous ironwork; and there were two installations by Dario Robleto, one featuring preserved, mounted butterflies with antennae made of audio tape delicately perched on the edges of the fossilized inner - ear bones of whales, and the other a collaboration with the record label Dust - to - Digital to preserve early gospel music.

From the invention of the phonograph (or wax cylinder), to the vinyl LP, to the 8 - track cassette tape, to compact discs and digital files played on iPods that got smaller and smaller (and eventually, too, became unnecessary), music as an audio format evolved to satisfy demands of convenience and access.