Jukebox Machines

Okay, so remember vinyl discs? If 16-, 33.3-, and 78-RPM records had the small spindle hole, then why such the
big hub hole for 45-RPM discs (even though small-shaft players can be adapted for those)?Will you come back and see my responses to yours, please?Thanks,Mike ChristensenHmm, Defunct Zombie, why would they make a machine like that JUST to make someone buy a new machine, especially since the music manufacturers and the player manufacturers were separate companies, and also since you could just use an adapter anyway? That’d be pretty silly, wouldn’t it? It wouldn’t make sense.Okay, before checking back here, I went to the other category I put this question in, consumer electronics, and 45 Rpm Disc it had 2 answers (although I’d think that the 2 answers would come here to the entertainment category first–weird to me that they didn’t, but anyway…) and those two people said that the bigger hole was because 45s were made specifically for the vinyl-disc jukeboxes because when they were first designing those machines, the robotic arms in them had a hard time hitting the small hole right on. The bigger hole and bigger hub solved that problem. Those two answers were very similar and sounded pretty good to me.Thanks, though,MikeHi, again, Defunct Zombie,I apologize! I forgot that I had asked this in 3 categories, not just 2. I checked my 3rd category, Home > Entertainment & Music > Music > Other – Music, and found that Kim Z. had qoted EverythingRadio.com, and it basically says that 45 RPM was an precisely optimized constant rotational speed at that diameter, and since RCA invented that format they made 45-only players and licensed the format to disc manufacturers, and locked people into buying their new players. Seems kind-of weird to me, but also still plausible.Check out this question at Home > Entertainment & Music > Music > Other – Music for the full detail.Hmmm! So, “Defunct Zombie,” I’m sorry for jumping to a conclusion before, because it looks like you are partly right! Sounds weird and shallow that they’d do that, but then that article really makes it believable!:)
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