Who Invented The Music Industry Changing Ipod

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Have you ever wondered who invented the iPod? Today’s sleek portable digital music player is a far cry from the original tape playing walkman. Who dreamed that you could store 1000’s of songs in something so small. The Apple iPod was something right out of science fiction. Now it is just part of the every day.
What is an iPod?
> It is Apples version of a portable digital music player.
> It took less than one year to develop
The first iPod
> It was unveiled on the 23 of October 2001
> It was presented as a Mac-compatible
> The hard drive was 5 GB
> It was advertized as being able to put 1,000 songs in your pocket
Who really invented the iPod?
> A team invented the iPod but Steve Jobs was instrumental in creating iPods
> CEO Steve Jobs Made the decision to create a portable digital music player
> Jon Rubinstein was Apples hardware engineering chief. He had a team create the Apple iPod.
> Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey were hardware engineers
> Design engineer was Jonathan Ive
The Software
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... > Apple iPod software was not developed completely in-house
> iPod software uses PortalPlayer’s reference platform based on 2 ARM cores.
> Under Steve Jobs direct supervision Pixo helped design and implement the user interface
> iPod Mini had Espy Sans replace the Chicago font
> Later iPods switched to Podium Sans font
> iPods color displays adopted Mac OS X themes
> Apple modified the iPod interface in 2007 with the iPod Classic and iPod Nano.
- The font was changed to Helvetica
- The screen was split in half. Displaying the menus on the left, album artwork, photos, or videos on the right
> The audio file formats iPods can play are:
- MP3 †MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3: It is used for digital audio storage, compression, transfer and playback. Usually used for music.
- AAC/M4A
* Advanced Audio Coding (AAC): is used for digital audio. Was intended to replace MP3 and provides better sound quality.
* Multimedia container format (M4A): is most used to store digital audio and video streams and still pictures.
- Protected AAC †Is AAC with a little extra that enables error correction
- AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF): is an audio file format standard. Sound data is stored for use on personal computers and other electronic audio devices
- Wav â€Waveform audio format: is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard and is used for storing audio bit streams on PCs
- Audible Audiobook †digital books
- Apple Lossless - Apple Lossless Encoder, ALE, Apple Lossless Audio Codec, ALAC: Apple Inc. Developed this audio code for lossless data compression of digital music.
> iPod Photo can display these image file formats:
- JPEG
- BMP
- GIF
- TIFF
- PNG
About Author:
Jorge Reis is the author of How to addd songs to ipod and How to add space to an iPod.