Music Lab

Music services must _________ songs from record labels to offer tracks for users to listen to.

• license

• record

• copyright

• export

When you pay to listen to music, you can do whatever you want with the song recording.

• True

• False

Mastering engineers adjust the _________ of sound waves, which determines the sound's volume (how loud/soft a sound is).

• amplitude

• pitch

• wavelength

• export

What do you think it means to export a song?

• to save a file so it can be used by other software

• to send the file to another country in the mail

• to open a file in special software

• to pull in a file so it can be used by other software

Hardware inside of a microphone can convert _________ into electric signals when recording songs.

• sound energy

• software

• other hardware

• light energy

A producer hits record on a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). A DAW is an example of _________ used to capture audio inputs.

• software

• an instrument

• sound energy

• inputs

A musician singing into a microphone or playing a keyboard plugged directly into a computer are examples of audio _________.

• inputs

• algorithms

• outputs

• software

In 1877, the first machine that could record and playback sound was invented. What was on the very first audio recording?

• nursery rhyme

• classical music

• A presidential speech

• a medical report

In 1877, the first machine that could record and playback sound was invented. It was called a _________.

• phonograph

• record player

• radio

• cassette recorder

Machine learning requires software to take in lots of _________, like the genre of a song or what other users listen to.

• data

• amplitude

• sound energy

• license