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Beyond the 8-track: A fascinating graveyard of forgotten music formats

[This was my column this week for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Sitting on a shelf in my home office is a

Since the dawn of recorded audio in 1877, we’ve gone through a series of formats, starting with the wax cylinder

Most of us are probably pretty ecumenical when it comes to choosing a format for listening to music. Digital files

Over the 130-ish years the recorded music industry has existed, we’ve consumed music through cylinders, shellac discs, vinyl, several iterations

Here’s a good article from NPR on how radio has shaped the course of pop music over the decades. You

What’s your preferred format of music? CDs? Vinyl? Digital files? Streams? A little bit of each, maybe? And once you