Sound recording and reproduction

Quality:

Sound recording and reproduction - recording of sound and playing it back. Article “Sound recording and reproduction” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Sound recording and reproduction”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 873 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 115 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9238 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1230 in September 2014
• Global: #1535 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2604 in September 2022
• Global: #4479 in August 2009

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Sound recording and reproduction		77.6635
2	Korean (ko) 녹음과 재생		69.7543
3	Italian (it) Registrazione e riproduzione sonora		40.4558
4	Simple English (simple) Sound recording and reproduction		34.7553
5	Portuguese (pt) Gravação e reprodução sonora		34.3898
6	Czech (cs) Záznam a reprodukce zvuku		33.4834
7	Catalan (ca) Enregistrament i reproducció del so		30.2318
8	Chinese (zh) 聲音錄製和再現		20.351
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thu âm và tái tạo âm thanh		19.5627
10	Malay (ms) Perakaman dan pengeluaran semula bunyi		18.0728

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sound recording and reproduction		5 800 058
2	Spanish (es) Grabación y reproducción de sonido		725 612
3	Indonesian (id) Perekam suara		207 101
4	Portuguese (pt) Gravação e reprodução sonora		174 406
5	Italian (it) Registrazione e riproduzione sonora		152 069
6	Czech (cs) Záznam a reprodukce zvuku		77 728
7	Japanese (ja) 音楽・音響・録音技術		52 399
8	Simple English (simple) Sound recording and reproduction		51 980
9	Korean (ko) 녹음과 재생		43 439
10	Malay (ms) Perakaman dan pengeluaran semula bunyi		36 670

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sound recording and reproduction		9 066
2	Indonesian (id) Perekam suara		1 853
3	Spanish (es) Grabación y reproducción de sonido		649
4	Italian (it) Registrazione e riproduzione sonora		207
5	Portuguese (pt) Gravação e reprodução sonora		141
6	Czech (cs) Záznam a reprodukce zvuku		137
7	Korean (ko) 녹음과 재생		90
8	Serbian (sr) Snimanje i reprodukcija zvuka		82
9	Persian (fa) ضبط و بازتولید صدا		60
10	Chinese (zh) 聲音錄製和再現		56

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sound recording and reproduction		559
2	Spanish (es) Grabación y reproducción de sonido		62
3	Italian (it) Registrazione e riproduzione sonora		54
4	Portuguese (pt) Gravação e reprodução sonora		38
5	Czech (cs) Záznam a reprodukce zvuku		23
6	Simple English (simple) Sound recording and reproduction		22
7	Catalan (ca) Enregistrament i reproducció del so		16
8	Indonesian (id) Perekam suara		16
9	Japanese (ja) 音楽・音響・録音技術		13
10	Korean (ko) 녹음과 재생		12

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sound recording and reproduction		3
2	Uzbek (uz) Tovush yozib olish		1
3	Chinese (zh) 聲音錄製和再現		1
4	Catalan (ca) Enregistrament i reproducció del so		0
5	Czech (cs) Záznam a reprodukce zvuku		0
6	Spanish (es) Grabación y reproducción de sonido		0
7	Persian (fa) ضبط و بازتولید صدا		0
8	Galician (gl) Gravación e reprodución de son		0
9	Hebrew (he) הקלטה והשמעה של קול		0
10	Hindi (hi) ध्वनि अभिलेखन एवं पुनरुत्पादन		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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