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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: A Brief History of Digital Audio
Description: Right now, you are listening to the sound of my voice on some sort of digital audio device. In fact, almost all of the audio you consume today was digitally recorded or edited at some point in the process.But sound is inherently analog. How does sound, the movement of air, become converted into 1s and 0s? …and once sound is digitally converted, how is it distributed, and how has the digitization of sound changed the business of music and audio?Learn more about digital audio, how it works,, and how it changed how...