
In that year, British businessman Kane Kramer filed a patent for the IXI, the first digital audio player. The MP3 player traces its roots back to 1981. This player also aims to make music much more accessible for people to hear. They also aim to be able to store more music files in a much easier way.

MP3 players aim to be more compact and portable than previous music players. These are usually digitally stored in a CD.

CDs usually contain music and other audio files and recordings. Meanwhile, a CD player is another music player that can play audio from CDs.

Magnetic tapes use long plastic strips that can embed information. Cassette tapes had music or other audio recorded into magnetic tapes. While it is portable, it is quite large and bulky due to the amount of in-built devices it has.Ī cassette player is a music player that can play cassette tapes. These featured two loudspeakers through which you can hear the music that comes from a cassette tape or CD. These took the form of boomboxes, cassette players and CD players.īoomboxes played music through its built-in cassette players, radio and CD player. Ms of music players before the MP3 player came. The MP3 player allows its users to bring it around easily and to play music anytime and anywhere. Hearing MP3 files is also possible through earphones, headphones, and speakers. This makes it possible to compress audio by a factor of about 5, without noticeable change to the sound of the music.You can hear these files through the MP3 player’s built-in speakers. This means that when encoding certain sound samples, some sounds can be left out as they will not be heard. The human ear can not hear certain sounds if they are masked by other sounds. When encoding to MP3, the encoder is smart. This means that each time something is compressed with it, some information is lost. The MP3 format is a lossy compression format. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, which led to the idea of a video sharing site.

Karim said the inspiration for YouTube first came from Janet Jackson's role in the 2004 Super Bowl incident when her breast was exposed during her performance, and later from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Difficulty in finding enough dating videos led to a change of plans, with the site's founders deciding to accept uploads of any type of video. They created posts on Craigslist asking attractive females to upload videos of themselves to YouTube in exchange of an $100 reward. Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.
