Do They (Or We) Know It’s Clipping?Sound Quality and the Music Librarian’s Role in

Educating Younger Listeners

Andrew Justice

University of North Texas

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A Quick-and-Dirty Historyof Sound Recording

in 15 Minutes (or less)

1857: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s Phonautographhttp://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php

1877: Thomas Edison’s Phonographhttp://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

1888: Emile Berliner’s Gramophone (78 rpm)

Early 1930s: Magnetic Tape

1930s-1948: 33 1/3 rpm long-play (LP) discs

1982: Compact Discs

Jimmy Smith: Back At The Chicken ShackBlue Note 84117, 1960

1999-2001: Audio File FormatsUncompressed: WAV, AIFF, AU, PCM

Lossless Compression: FLAC, Shorten, Apple/WMA LosslessLossy Compression: MP3, AAC, Vorbis, WMA

Pono

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