i prefer vinyl records to any other music recording format.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. At first, the discs were commonly made from shellac; starting in the 1950s polyvinyl chloride became common. In recent decades, records have sometimes been called vinyl records, or simply vinyl, although this would exclude most records made until after World War II. The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the phonograph cylinder from the late 1880s and had effectively superseded it by around 1912. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as the compact cassette were mass-marketed. By the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream around 1991. From the 1990s to the 2010s, records continued to be manufactured and sold on a much smaller scale, and were especially used by disc jockeys (DJs), released by artists in some genres, and listened to by a niche market of audiophiles.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I listened to a phonograph record when I was young."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "was this before the 1950s when the discs were made from shellac?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think all old school records are consider phonograph records, even vinyl records."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "they all have grooves which start at the periphery and end near the centre"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Older ones were made from shellac. They come in different sizes too."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "shellac is a resin, more modern records are polyvinyl"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I believe they are also referred to as gramphones in England. Are you English?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "i am English and yes we call them gramophones that play phonograph records"}]