Amazon Music: Careers Behind the Beats Tour

Question 1

Computers are trained using __________ to learn what people like to listen to and make new music recommendations.

Accepted Answer

machine learning

Question 2

Record labels own a _______ for their artists’ songs, which gives them the right to choose who can use their property.

Accepted Answer

copyright

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

amplitude

Question 4

Engineers ___ and check packages that contain songs, information, and artwork before the track enters the music catalog.

Accepted Answer

ingest

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Question 6

Producers use _________, like microphones, instruments, and mixing boards to capture sound inputs.

Accepted Answer

hardware

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

sound energy

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

What do you think it means to export a song?

Accepted Answer

To save a file so it can be used by other software

Question 10

What is one responsibility of a back-end engineer in a music app?

Accepted Answer

Write the code that retrieves the correct song data

Question 11

Engineers write the code for the buttons, menus, and other design of an app’s _______.

Accepted Answer

front end

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

inputs

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

license

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

software

Question 15

______ allows people to access music files on demand over the Internet, instead of lugging around heavy records.

Accepted Answer

Streaming

Question 16

A UX designer passes over ___________ to a front end engineer so they know exactly what to code.

Accepted Answer

requirements

Question 17

How long would it take to listen to all the music currently available on Amazon Music if you listened without stopping?

Accepted Answer

Over 500 years

Question 18

The pitch of a sound is determined by a wave’s _______ - the distance between two of the same points in a wave.

Accepted Answer

wavelength

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

data

Question 20

When crafting buttons and app flow, designers focus on the _____, the way a customer thinks or feels when using the app.

Accepted Answer

User Experience (UX)

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