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Coin-operated [[musical box|music boxes]] and [[player piano]]s carved out a place for automatic pay-per-tune [[music]] in fairgrounds, amusement parks and other public places (such as train stations in Switzerland) a few decades before the introduction of reliable coin-operated phonographs. Some of these automatic musical instruments were extremely well built and have survived to this day in the hands of collectors and museums. But commercially they could not compete with the jukebox in the long run since they were limited to the instrument (or instruments) used in their construction, and could not reproduce the human voice.
The immediate ancestor of the jukebox, called the "Coin-slot [[phonograph]]", was the first medium of [[sound recording]] encountered by the general public, before mass produced home audio equipment became common. Such machines began to be mass produced in [[1889]], using [[phonograph cylinder]]s for records. The earliest machines played but a single record (of about 2 minutes of music or entertainment), but soon devices were developed that allowed customers to choose between multiple records. In the 1910s the cylinder gradually was superseded by the [[gramophone record]]. The term "juke box" came into use in the [[United States]] in the [[1930s]], either derived from [[African-American]] [[slang]] "jook" meaning "dance", or being a name given to it by critics who said it would encourage criminal behavior, this came from the fake family name [[Jukes and Kallikaks|Juke]]. The [[shellac]] 78 [[Revolutions per minute|rpm]] record dominated jukeboxes until the [[Seeburg Corporation]] introduced an all 45 rpm [[vinyl record]] jukebox in 1950 like the one used by [[Fonzie|Fonz]] in [[Happy_Days|Happy Days]].
Starting in the [[1980s]], [[compact disc]]s became the norm for modern jukeboxes. Towards the end of the 20th century several companies started introducing completely digital jukeboxes which did not use CDs, downloading the tunes securely over the Internet or through a separate, proprietary transmission protocol over phone lines. In addition to automatically downloading a potentially larger selection than what is available on CDs in a single machine the digital jukeboxes also send back information on what is being played, and where, opening up new commercial avenues.
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