An Overview Of Present, Future of Music Technology

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 11, 2004 @11:18PM from the movable-feast dept.

prostoalex writes "IEEE Spectrum magazine is running a feature article on the state of music and current digital formats. They point to an interesting phenomenon in the digital music world that Steve Jobs emphasized as well: for the first time in music history, the next big format was not about better quality (SACD and such) but about better portability (MP3). 'It was only five years ago that the music industry was facing a civil war over the next-generation disc-based music format -- the successor to the wildly successful CD. At that time, hardly anybody doubted that the music would be encoded optically on a round plastic disc the size of a CD.'"

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Re:Portability... And security by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · 2004-09-11 23:46 · Score: 5, Funny

how long until we are reduced to the age of "renting" everything... even that which we purchase fully?
Just returned my rented steak, fries and salad back to nature. Thank you.