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Long-Playing Record (Lp)

Since the invention of sound-recording technology by Thomas Edison (1847–1931) in the 1800s, people have looked for new and better ways to bring recorded sound to mass audiences. Before cassettes, compact discs (also called CDs; seeentry under 1980s—Music in volume 5), and MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (MP3) files, the long-playing record (LP) was for more than forty years the main way people heard recorded music.

During the first half of the twentieth century, the 78-rpm record—spinning on a turntable 78 times, or revolutions, per minute—was the major way people heard recorded music. But the 78-rpm record had a number.....

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