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:Accessibility not Portability by AaronGTurner · 2004-09-12 04:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

"However take a look around you the next time you're riding the train, taking the bus or walking down a busy street: count how many people who are actually listening to ANYTHING, be it a MP3 player or even a portable CD player (excluding cell phones). Chances are it will be less than 1 in 10 (even for here in NYC)."
Seems to me that every other person is listening to some annoying tinny thing they call "music" these days. Of course it isn't proper music as you can't understand the words and it is just a repetitive beat and bleeping noises.
Maybe I am just getting old.
Anyway, must get back to writing a letter to the Telegraph complaining how everything round here used to be fields and young people used to be respectful and a haircut only cost 1 and 6.