National CD Player Day – October 1, 2022 history significance why we celebrate
We are celebrating CD Player Day on October 1 by more than just reminiscing about it. The CD Player changed the way that music was consumed by people and Gen-Xers still remember it for that.
History of National CD Player Day
The history of National CD Player Day is the history of the CD Player, and by extension, the CDs they play. Do you remember what CD stands for? We do! It’s Compact Disc, and it was one of the most innovative storage solutions ever built.
A 1.2m thick disc of plastic with a spiral of data so tight it causes optical refraction to the disc viewer, creating a rainbow that, to us, is representative of the incredible variety of sounds that can be bound within.
In the year of 1982, the CD Player came home, produced by the Sony company, and set to make a huge change in the public consumption of media, especially sounds. The price was anything but reachable by an ordinary man, however, ranging in at 2,200 dollars, and the price of CDs being $33-$45, but that wasn’t set to last. Prices were dropping as technology improved, and in the year 1985 Dire Straits released their Brothers in Arms CD, and it quickly became the 1st to sell over a million copies. The CD Player was officially here to stay.
CD PLAYER DAY TIMELINE
1982
The CD Player’s American Debut
The same year, Sony brought the CD player to America and priced it at $1,000 — almost out of reach of the common man.
1985
The CD Player Comes of Age
When the British rock band Dire Straits released their album “Brothers in Arms” on CDs in 1985, it quickly sold over a million copies.
1990s
The CD Player becomes the Status Quo
With dropping prices and superior quality, CDs displaced the audio cassettes and floppy disks ultimately.
October 1, 1982
The First-Ever CD player
The Sony CDP-101, released by Sony Electronics in Japan on October 1, 1982, was priced at ~168,000 yen — over $1750 in today’s terms.
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5 ELECTRONIC DEVICES THAT WERE USED TO PLAY MUSIC
Gramophone
It used a needle to play music from a rubber disk that turned on a hard plate.
Audio cassette player
It played music from spools of magnetic tape wound together in a cassette.
CD Player
It played music when laser beams were directed on circular disks.
iPod
It played back music stored as data.
Mobile phones
It played music either stored as digital data or streamed on apps over the internet.
How to Celebrate National CD Player Day
Well first off dig out your old Disc holder and dig your CDs out of the storage. Yeah, we know you probably have all your music and more stored on your hard disk, or up in the cloud storage, but on this CD Player Day it’s time to walk the paths of nostalgia back to an older, but still quite reliable, format. Remember those show your CDs some love on CD Player Day!
